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Overview
Release Date:
15 November 1935 (USA) moreTagline:
Don't miss it! The funniest picture ever made!Plot:
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Veteran Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart Dead at 96 (From Studio Briefing. 19 April 2007)
Broadway Star Kitty Carlisle Hart Dead at 96 (From WENN. 19 April 2007)
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The best Marx Brothers film, the best comedy, the best everything moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Groucho Marx | ... | Otis B. Driftwood | |
| Chico Marx | ... | Fiorello | |
| Harpo Marx | ... | Tomasso | |
| Kitty Carlisle | ... | Rosa Castaldi | |
| Allan Jones | ... | Ricardo Baroni | |
| Walter Woolf King | ... | Rodolfo Lassparri (as Walter King) | |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Herbert Gottlieb (as Siegfried Rumann) | |
| Margaret Dumont | ... | Mrs. Claypool | |
| Edward Keane | ... | Captain | |
| Robert Emmett O'Connor | ... | Henderson (as Robert Emmet O'Connor) |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
96 min | USA:91 min (1948 re-release)Country:
USAColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
South Korea:12 (2004) | USA:Approved (certificate #1613) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Finland:S | UK:UMOVIEmeter: 
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A total of 15 people were in the famous stateroom scene:- Driftwood (1)
- the stowaways Fiorello, Tomasso and Riccardo [who were in the trunk] (2-4)
- two chambermaids (5-6)
- an engineer who comes to turn off the heat (7)
- a manicurist (8)
- the engineer's burly assistant (9)
- a young woman looking for her Aunt and asking to use the phone (10)
- a cleaning woman (11)
- and four staff stewards bearing trays of food (12-15).
- They all tumble out when Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) opens the door.
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Continuity: During the antics on stage during the opera, a battleship backdrop falls into the scene. But just seconds later, the battleship backdrop has vanished. moreQuotes:
Henderson: Hey, who were you talking to?Otis B. Driftwood: I was talking to myself, and there's nothing you can do about it. I've had three of the best doctors in the East.
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"A Night at the Opera" is one of those films you can see dozens of times and laugh just as hard as you did the first time. The brothers get mixed up with an opera company and a divo and diva in love - Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle, and trying to get the two to perform together.
The one-liners come so fast - you keep thinking you'll remember them, but one is funnier than the next. I do remember what Groucho says when he sees the gypsy Azucena in the opera, however. "How would you like to feel how she looks?" The stateroom scene is, of course, a classic, and my favorite part is when Groucho tells the housekeeper, "I want two pillows on that bed" and Harpo sound asleep and being moved everywhere, including onto a tray of food.
But nothing beats the last half hour - the performance of "Il Trovatore" with Harpo using the stage ropes like Tarzan, and Chico playing baseball in the orchestra while Groucho sells peanuts. They have replaced part of the overture with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
Allan Jones plays the tenor Ricardo Baroni who is hoping for his break. Why they cast the blond Jones as a tenor named Baroni - well, there you go. He sings very well and is quite handsome. Kitty Carlisle is the diva waiting, petite and pretty and singing music out of her vocal type, with the exception of "Alone." "Stridono lassu" and Leonora in Trovatore were both much too heavy for her. She does sing well and what a woman - she's still alive and recently performed at a New York supper club recently at the age of 95.
The only problem with any Marx Brothers film is that when they aren't in front of the camera, suddenly their films become very slow. Because I was trained in opera and have some interest in it, this was less the case than with some of their other films. They were too magical, too energetic, and too darn funny to ever share a spotlight with anyone else. Thank goodness they did, though, as they left us with many treasures. This is one.