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A Night at the Opera (movie)

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A Night At the Opera is a 1935 comedy film in which the three Marx Brothers help two young lovers to succeed in love as well as in the opera world. It stars Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Siegfried Rumann and Margaret Dumont.

The movie was adapted by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg (uncredited) and Buster Keaton (uncredited) from a story by James Kevin McGuinness. Sam Wood was the director, and the producer was Irving Thalberg.

It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

The British rock group Queen later paid homage to this film by naming one of their most famous albums after it (see A Night at the Opera (album))

Stateroom Scene
Stateroom Scene
The film contains one of the most hilarious scenes of all filmdom, when loads of people crowd into Groucho's tiny stateroom (see image).

Quotation

Dumont:I've been sitting right here since 7:00. Groucho:Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

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