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A Night at the Opera

Summary: A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Release Date: November 15, 1935

Genres: Comedy, Music, Musical

Directors: Sam Wood

, Edmund Goulding

Writers: George S. Kaufman

, Morrie Ryskind

, James Kevin McGuinness

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,537,520

International: $ 1,419,180

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alarm clock anvil anvil chorus arrest aviator backdrop backstage balcony bare chested male beard bed bill booed off stage booing bound and gagged bowing breakfast celebration character says i love you chase cigar smoking cleaning lady cleaning woman climbing a rope climbing from balcony to balcony clothes ripped off clown costume comedy trio con artist con man conductor's baton contract corsage cross dressing crowded small room cutting off a beard cutting off someone's beard dancing dinner disguise dowager dressing room drinking water duet fake beard falling down stairs falling from height false beard fire axe fire escape fired from a job five word title flattery folk dance frying pan gypsy costume harp hit on the head with a frying pan hit on the head with a mallet hit with a frying pan hit with a mallet horse and carriage horse drawn carriage hotel bill hotel room impersonation impostor irreverence italian accent italian american italian opera kicked in the butt knocked out knocked unconscious last minute replacement lights shut off locked in a closet locked in a locker long johns love triangle luggage maid male police officer mallet man kissing a woman's hand manicure manicurist marx brothers mayor milan italy millionairess mistaken identity moth music conductor music patronage mute national film registry new york new york city newspaper headline ocean liner older woman younger man relationship opening night opera opera company opera house opera singer opera singing orchestra orchestra conductor orchestra pit pantomime park bench passenger ship patron of the arts peanut vendor piano piano playing piano stool playing catch playing harp playing piano police police detective police officer port hole porter porthole punched in the face pursuit pushed down stairs reference to don wilson reference to enrico caruso reference to giuseppe verdi reference to greta garbo reference to il trovatore the opera reference to pagliacci the opera reference to santa claus reference to tarzan reference to the dionne quintuplets reference to the jack benny program restaurant reverse sound rich widow romantic rival room service rope rubber glove sabotage sandbag sausage sexual innuendo ship ship cabin ship steward signing a contract sitting on a bench slapstick comedy smelling salts soprano sound played backwards spaghetti speach speech spinning piano stool splashed through a port ohle stage stage curtain stage scenery stealing someone's clothes steamer trunk steerage stowaway swinging on a rope tearing up a contract tenor tenor singer theater theater audience theatre backdrop throwing a baseball tied to a bed transatlantic cruise transatlantic voyage trio trombone trunk turning off the lights unpaid bill unrequited love upskirt whip whipped whipping whistling widow wordplay

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