Fiorello appears and introduces himself to Driftwood as the manager of the 'greatest tenor in the world'. Driftwood arrives backstage and finds Lassparri attacking Tomasso, his dresser Tomasso knocks Lassparri unconscious by hitting him over the head with a mallet. Ricardo is in love with the soprano, Rosa Castaldi, who is also being courted by Lassparri. Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri, the 'greatest tenor since Caruso'.īackstage at the opera house, chorister Ricardo Baroni hires his best friend Fiorello to be his manager. Claypool and soon introduces her to Herman Gottlieb, director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. After she discovers him dining with another woman and seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, a wealthy widow, has apparently been stood-up for dinner by Otis B.

100 Movies, at number 85 and previously in AFI's 100 Years.100 Laughs 2000 showing, at number 12.Īt a restaurant in Milan, Italy, Mrs. It is also included in the 2007 update of AFI's 100 Years.

One of MGM's biggest hits at the 1935 box office, A Night at the Opera was selected in 1993 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind from a story by James Kevin McGuinness, with additional uncredited dialogue by Al Boasberg. It was the first of five films the Marx Brothers made under contract for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act. ( March 2022)Ī Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers ( Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx), and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.

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