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365 Days, 100 Films #88 - A Night at the Opera (1935)

10 January 2012 8:50 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

A Night at the Opera, 1935.

Directed by Sam Wood.

Starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont and Sig Ruman.

Synopsis:

The Marx Brothers make fools of high society’s opera lovers, and try to help their two friends-in-love along the way.

Groucho always gets the most ridiculously stately names. Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers, for example, or Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers. Mr Otis B. Driftwood is his character in A Night at the Opera. He’s still Groucho, though. He’s always Groucho.

Groucho acts as an advisor of sorts to Mrs Claypool (Margaret Dumont, of course). She’s trying to break into high society and solicits Groucho’s help. Why, we have no idea. This is a Marx Brothers film. Logic and rationality are the enemies.

He chooses the opera as their way up society’s ladder, encouraging »

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