: Driftwood: And two medium-boiled eggs.: Fiorello: (inside room): And two hard-boiled eggs.: Driftwood: And two hard-boiled eggs.: Tomasso: (inside room): (honk): Driftwood: Make that "three" hard boiled eggs. So Driftwood calls a steward ("I say, Stew") and orders dinner. Fiorello insists on getting something to eat ("We getta food or we don't go"). Claypool in his stateroom then he finds out how small it is, and that he, his trunk, and the bed barely fit in it. When they find out that Rosa has been fired for siding with Riccardo, the boys spring into action, sabotaging the opening night performance by throwing it into total chaos and making sure that both Riccardo and Rosa get their due as the news hits of the opera world. Once in New York, the stowaways are pursued by the police for entering the country illegally, and Otis ends up losing his position with the opera to Gottlieb. Otis signs Riccardo to a contract, thinking he is signing Lasspari Lasspari, meanwhile, is signed for the New York opera by snobbish financier Herman Gottlieb ( Sig Ruman).Īlthough Riccardo and Fiorello are not allowed to accompany the troupe on their trip to New York, they manage to stow away on the ship, along with another of Fiorello's friends, Tomasso ( Harpo Marx), a dresser fired by Lasspari. However, Riccardo's dreams are thwarted by the star of the opera, Lasspari ( Walter Woolf King), an egotistical man who wants fame - and Rosa - for himself. At the last opera performance of the season in Italy, of " Pagliacci", Otis meets Fiorello ( Chico Marx), who is the best friend and manager of Riccardo ( Allan Jones), an opera singer who longs for his big break and who is in love with fellow opera singer Rosa ( Kitty Carlisle). Claypool ( Margaret Dumont) to help her break into high society, but he instead alternately woos and insults her. Driftwood ( Groucho Marx) is hired by widowed socialite hopeful Mrs. In "A Night At the Opera", the Marx brothers help two young lovers to succeed in love as well as in the opera world.
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] It is also included in the 2007 update of AFI's 100 Years. In 1993, "A Night at the Opera" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg (uncredited) and Buster Keaton (uncredited) from a story by James Kevin McGuinness. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for MGM after their departure from Paramount, and the first without Zeppo. "A Night at the Opera" is a 1935 comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Siegfried Rumann and Margaret Dumont. Distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1935-1986)