

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. ] 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)
