Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Release Year: 1935
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Sam WoodEdmund Goulding
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Dont miss it! The funniest picture ever made!

Writing by: James Kevin McGuinness - (story)
George S. Kaufman - (screenplay) and
Morrie Ryskind - (screenplay)
Al Boasberg - (dialogue) uncredited
Buster Keaton - uncredited
Robert Pirosh - draft (uncredited)
George Seaton - draft (uncredited)

Produced by: Irving Thalberg - producer (uncredited)

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 OConnor - Henderson (as Robert Emmet OConnor)
Harry Allen - Doorman (uncredited)

Music: Herbert Stothart
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Plot Outline: A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Plot: The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the mans lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Grateful acknowledgement of assistance to all our families

Goofs: We know about 13 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of camera and crane visible as Driftwood enters the rehearsal area and greets the singers.

Trivia: There are 27 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The famous "stateroom scene" was originally conceived as a way of getting a cheap laugh by having Groucho Marx, crowded out of his room, changing his pants in the corridor.
• The first storyline was about Groucho Marx as the producer of an opera. That story was dropped but appeared many times in Hollywood as a story idea - until Mel Brooks (I) made The Producers (1968) and got an Academy Award.
• In the scene where Harpo Marx, Chico Marx and Allan Jones are impersonating the three aviators in front of the mayor, Groucho turns around to speak to them in a "foreign language." What is actually being said is a direct response to the accusations of imposters, only the audio track is played backwards. The first time Groucho actually says, "Did you hear what he said? He said you were frauds and imposters!" which is then followed by Chico and Riccardo protesting loudly, "How can he say a thing like that?", "This is ridiculous," and other such comments.

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