A Night at the Opera (film)
A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for MetroGoldwynMayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act. The film was adapted by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Al Boasberg uncredited from a story by James Kevin McGuinness. It was directed by Sam Wood.
Otis B. Driftwood Groucho, business manager for the wealthy Mrs. Claypool Margaret Dumont, has stood her up and is having dinner with another woman in the very same restaurant. When they find each other at opposite tables, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb Sig Ruman, director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Driftwood has arranged for Mrs. Claypool to invest 200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri Walter Woolf King, the greatest tenor since Caruso.Backstage at the opera house, chorister Ricardo Baroni Allan Jones hires his best friend Fiorello Chico to be his manager. Ricardo is in love with the soprano, Rosa Castaldi Kitty Carlisle, who is also being pursued by Lassparri. Driftwood arrives and finds Lassparri attacking his dresser, Tomasso Harpo, who knocks Lassparri unconscious by hitting him on the head. Fiorello enters and identifies himself as the manager of the greatest tenor in the world. Driftwood, mistakenly thinking Fiorello is referring to Lassparri, signs Baroni to a contract. ........
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