Una notte all'opera

Titolo originale: A Night at the Opera
Regia: Sam Wood |
Anno: 1935
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Musica
Tag: opera | cross dressing | whimsical | farcical | ridiculous |
Cast: Groucho Marx | Chico Marx | Harpo Marx | Kitty Carlisle | Allan Jones | Sig Ruman | Walter Woolf King | Robert Emmett O'Connor | Margaret Dumont | Edward Keane | Evelyn Selbie | Purnell Pratt | Jonathan Hale | Otto Fries | Gino Corrado | Bess Flowers | Chuck Hamilton | Frank McLure | William H. O'Brien | George Irving | Billy Gilbert | Ruth Cherrington | Al Bridge | Selmer Jackson | Jack 'Tiny' Lipson | Stanley Blystone | Wedgwood Nowell | King Baggot | John St. Polis | Bud Geary | Rolfe Sedan | Sam Appel | Stephen Soldi | Purnell Pratt | Evelyn Selbie | Jay Eaton | Harry 'Zoup' Welsh | Gloria Delson |

Otis B. Driftwood, un eccentrico impresario teatrale newyorkese, convince una ricca vedova, la signora Claypool, a investire una forte somma di denaro a favore del Metropolitan Opera House di New York, somma che servirà per ingaggiare il famoso tenore Lassparri. Ma per errore egli scritturerà un giovane tenore disoccupato, innamorato di un'affascinante soprano, ed insieme ad altri due allegri mattacchioni, Tomasso e Fiorello, parte con lui per l'America. Dopo mille peripezie il giovane tenore verrà scritturato dall'Opera di New York e coronerà il suo sogno d'amore, mentre i tre fratelli montano un vero putiferio.

Approfondimenti

The young woman looking for her Aunt Minnie during the crowded stateroom scene is an obvious tribute [...] D
The famous "stateroom scene" was originally conceived as a way of getting a cheap laugh by having Gr [...] D
Originally, before its reissue in the 1940s the movie started with a title card that places the movi [...] D
Sig Ruman makes his first of three appearances in The Marx Brothers films. D
A Hollywood Reporter news items noted that at one time The Marx Brothers insisted that Lesley Seland [...] D
As Otis and Mrs. Claypool are boarding the ocean liner, she asks him, "Do you have everything, Otis? [...] D
A rejected plot for the film circulated for more than three decades as a Broadway legend and popular [...] D
Harpo Marx did many of his own stunts. He later said it was a silly thing for a 47-year-old non-stun [...] D
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films (1931-1940) indicates Rosa's last name is O'Flynn, [...] D
According to a 9 July 1935 news item, New York's Metropolitan Opera House chorus was to be recorded [...] D
Sam Wood, freshman The Marx Brothers director in this film, was a perfectionist. The scene in which [...] D
Notice when they show the full pit orchestra in the opera towards the end of the movie, there is a s [...] D
According to MGM's dialogue cutting continuity, the film originally began (after the opening credits [...] D
The film was to have originally begun with each of The Marx Brothers taking turns roaring in lieu of [...] D
In 1993, Una notte all'opera (1935) was added to the National Film Registry by the United States Lib [...] D
Irving Thalberg convinced The Marx Brothers to go on a lengthy publicity and live-preview tour of th [...] D
Screenwriters George Seaton and Robert Pirosh were brought on to fix early drafts of the script, but [...] D
The actress playing the manicurist in the stateroom scene (who also briefly appears during the board [...] D
Following the film's initial run, MGM quickly re-released it in 1936 to run as a double-feature with [...] D
Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones, who were both trained in operatic singing, provided their own singin [...] D
Kitty Carlisle initially refused to take the part when she was asked to mime to someone else's voice [...] D
Sam Wood's stuffiness made him the perfect target for The Marx Brothers. The director had an ulcer, [...] D
Groucho Marx said that this was his favorite among his movies. D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #85 Greatest American Movie of All Time. It [...] D
Pre-production news items include Robert Graves, Purnell Pratt and George Brent in the cast, however [...] D
MGM sponsored a Marx Brothers "Look-Alike" contest simultaneous to the film's release. D
The opera performed as the movie's climax is Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore". D
The first sneak preview for this film, held in Long Beach, California, is generally considered one o [...] D
Allan Jones was set to play in Terra senza donne (1935) but dropped out of that picture to act in th [...] D
Part of the concept of casting The Marx Brothers as stowaways on a ship was recycled from Monkey Bus [...] D
The film's first screenwriter was James Kevin McGuinness who concocted a plot based on Harpo Marx be [...] D
In exasperation after several attempts to have Groucho Marx read one of his lines in the manner dire [...] D
In 2008, a film student reported that the Hungarian National Film Archive possesses a longer print o [...] D
Producer Irving Thalberg would often call people in for meetings, and then keep them waiting in his [...] D
British rock band Queen named their 1975 album "A Night at the Opera" after the film. D
An additional scene was cut from the picture in subsequent releases, and is now considered lost. The [...] D
Groucho Marx said he was so appalled by an early draft of the script-which was reportedly written by [...] D
A persistent rumor involves the presence of The Marx Brothers' father, Sam Marx (aka "Frenchie"), in [...] D
The total amount of food ordered by Groucho outside his room (Suite 58) on the ship: 4 types of juic [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...] D
Although Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby worked on the film's script for several months, the writers' onl [...] D
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006. D
According to Oscar Levant, the first preview was a "disaster", with "hardly a laugh" as was the seco [...] D
This was The Marx Brothers' first film with MGM. In preparation MGM sent them on a nationwide tour, [...] D
Irving Thalberg personally signed The Marx Brothers to MGM when their contract with Paramount was up [...] D
Groucho Marx does a very brief Jack Benny impression in the film. After Otis P. Driftwood makes the [...] D
The heavy, Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman) has the same surname as the man in charge of booking acts for [...] D
The Marx Brothers's transition from Paramount to MGM resulted largely from Chico Marx's and Irving T [...] D
When Tomasso, Fiorello, and Ricardo are impersonating the three aviators in front of the mayor, Drif [...] D
The song "Alone", written for this movie, is hummed by the character "Archibald Beechcroft" in the t [...] D
Kitty Carlisle said the atmosphere on the set was "deadly earnest." She recalled how Groucho Marx wo [...] D
As The Marx Brothers' names are introduced, music from the Ruggero Leoncavallo opera I Pagliacci (Th [...] D
When Driftwood asks Fiorello if he knows what duplicates are, Fiorello says, "Sure, those five kids [...] D
This is the first The Marx Brothers movie in which Harpo Marx does not wear his signature overcoat, [...] D
Some reviews erroneously credit the assistant direction to "George" Selander, instead of Lesley Sela [...] D
When producer Irving Thalberg learned that the fourth member of The Marx Brothers, Zeppo Marx, would [...] D
Screenwriter Al Boasberg was brought on to punch up some of the jokes and add some new scenes to the [...] D
The first film of The Marx Brothers that doesn't have Zeppo Marx. D
This film screened alongside Pattinare, che passione! (1935) and Honolulu: The Paradise of the Pacif [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the Top 100 Funniest American Movies. D
Sam Wood was by most accounts a very serious, conservative man who had little or no sense of humour. [...] D
During the overture to Il Trovatore, Chico Marx can be seen playing the piano (including "shooting t [...] D
When the movie was to be edited for length, Allan Jones' song "Alone" was almost cut. Jones pleaded [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Kitty Carlisle stated that, out of her decades of movie roles, co-starring with The Marx Brothers in [...] D
The conductor starts the opera by ticking with his baton on his lectern, in order to gain the orches [...] D
This film was first telecast in Seattle Monday 8 October 1956 where it was chosen to launch the long [...] D

Connessioni

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Nemici amici: A Night at the Opera D
You Bet Your Life: Episode #4.16 D
Apaga y vámonos: Episode #1.5 D
Dinner for Five: Episode #2.2 D
All-American Girl: A Night at the Oprah D
Pretty Little Liars: Welcome to the Dollhouse D
La festa di Santa Barbara D
The War: A Necessary War: December 1941 - December 1942 D
Il boss e la matricola D
Animaniacs: Distasterpiece Theatre/Hercule Yakko/Home on De-Nile/A Midsummer Night's Dream D
Hollywood Hollywood D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell D
Familiar Faces: Brain Doners D
Come divenni padre D
Bravo Dick: Harris Ankles PIV for Web Post D
Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some D
Zack e Cody al Grand Hotel: Odd Couples D
Press Gang: Day Dreams D
Groucho D
50 Films to See Before You Die D
Stormy Monday - Lunedì di tempesta D
Discovering Film: Groucho Marx D
Caption Fail Movies: Una noche en la ópera D
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies D
Diminishing Returns Diminisodes: Whose British Sitcom Listory Is It Anyway? D
Discovering Music: Queen D
Grand Hotel D
Geno in the Evening: Marx Madness - A Celebration of the Marx Brothers D
The Critic: A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hobgoblins D
You Must Remember This: The Blacklist Part 1: The Prehistory of the Blacklist D
Precious Images D
The Bob Newhart Show: Bum Voyage D
100 Years at the Movies D
WatchMojo: Top 10 Comedy Movies: 1930s D
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition D
The Real Ghostbusters - I veri acchiappafantasmi: A Fright at the Opera D
Tarzan, l'uomo scimmia D
Just Shoot Me!: A Night at the Plaza D
The Goodies: The Goodies and the Beanstalk D
Project Runway All Stars: A Night at the Opera D
Birth of Hollywood: Episode #1.3 D
2001: Un'astronave spuntata nello spazio D
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood D
Gli sgangheroni D
At the Movies: Stinkers of 1982 D
Aquesta nit o mai D
La casa del diavolo D
Modern Family: A Slight at the Opera D
You Bet Your Life: Episode #6.12 D
Non cercate l'assassino D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Revenge of the Creature D
A cuore aperto: Heart On D
The Race to Save 100 Years D
Are You Being Served?: A Bliss Girl D
Seinfeld: The Pothole D
Caroline in the City: Caroline and the Blind Date D
Mastermind: Grand Final D
Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.19 D
El donante D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians D
Diminishing Returns Diminisodes: Whose List Is It Anyway? IV D
Queer as Folk: The Ties That Bind D
Raven: A Fight at the Opera D
Fratello, dove sei? D
Willy, il principe di Bel Air: A Night at the Oprah D
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg D
Amore e guerra D
Enterprise: Similitude D
Inside the Marx Brothers D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Master Ninja II D
I film: The Golden Age D
Century of Cinema: A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears D
Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Teenage Caveman D
TCM Guest Programmer: David Steinberg D
Dennis Miller: The Millennium Special - 1,000 Years, 100 Laughs, 10 Really Good Ones D
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM D
Groove High: A Fright at the Opera D
Priscilla - La regina del deserto D
Toast of the Town: MGM's 30th Anniversary Tribute D
Gli sgangheroni D
In Our Nature D
Edición Especial Coleccionista: Especial redoblajes D
Duck Dodgers: Of Course You Know, This Means War and Peace: Part 1 D
WatchMojo: The Best Comedy Movies of All Time from A to Z D
Edición Especial Coleccionista: Especial Top Comedias D
MGM: When the Lion Roars: The Lion's Roar D
El crimen del cine Oriente D
NCIS - Unità anticrimine: Heartland D
TCM Guest Programmer: Jerry Stiller D
The Unknown Marx Brothers D
Brother Can You Spare a Dime D
Groucho D
La casa dei 1000 corpi D
Aída: Tango y Paz D
100 Years of Comedy D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: I Accuse My Parents D
Blankety Blank: Episode #2.16 D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Pod People D
MASH: Your Hit Parade D
Il professore D
American Masters: The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table D
Classic Comedy Teams D
Car 54, Where Are You?: Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians D
50 Films to See Before You Die D
Comfort and Joy D
Grey Gardens D
Scooby e Scrappy Doo: A Fright at the Opera/The Invasion of the Scooby Snatchers/Scooby and the Bandit D
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Being from Another Planet D
Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires D
Il cameraman D
Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Hail, Hail, Black and White D
Remarks on Marx: A Night at the Opera D
Giudice di notte: A Night Court at the Opera D
Younger: A Night at the Opera D
The Projectionist D

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Errori

When Otis B. Driftwood is dining in the hotel room, he wears a napkin tucked into his shirt collar. [...] D
When Tomasso plays the harp, the sound is briefly out of sync a couple of times. This is due to the [...] D
At the beginning of the opera, Gottlieb (having just called Driftwood a "Schweinehund") is in the ba [...] D
When Tomasso, Ricardo, and Fiorello are about to give their speech, the mayor's tie is crooked. Afte [...] D
During the antics on stage during the opera, a battleship backdrop falls into the scene. But just se [...] D
During the Il Trovatore scenes, the extras' mouths are not singing the lyrics that are on the soundt [...] D
When Rosa is singing to Ricardo from the rail of the ship, she puts her handbag and gloves down on t [...] D
The 3 uncredited, but identifiable actors playing the 3 aviators in their first scene, (Jay Eaton, R [...] D
The elevator operator uses the old movie trick of rising from a squatting position to make it appear [...] D
During the contract scene, Baravelli makes a reference to the Dionne Quintuplets by saying to Driftw [...] D
When Otis Driftwood is sitting on top of the steamer trunk being pushed by the porter and has the po [...] D
Groucho, when Harpo is drinking one cup of water after another, says, "You know, they may have to bu [...] D
When Driftwood escapes from Gotlieb, you can see the far view of Gottlieb shaking his arm and saying [...] D
Lasspari's hat is off his head on the ship. But in the next shot when people are asking him to sing, [...] D
When Tomasso is playing the harp, he is whistling. The fourth time he whistles, we hear his whistle [...] D
Ricardo is clearly standing on the dock as the ship pulls away, yet he turns up on board later as a [...] D
Lasspari is "abducted" from the stage as he is singing the famous "Di Quella Pira" aria from the ope [...] D
Fiorello plays a turn at the piano surrounded by boys and girls. When he gets up, there is a boy the [...] D
Shadow of camera and crane visible as Driftwood enters the rehearsal area and greets the singers. D
During the overture to "Il Trovatore" when the orchestra members turn their pages and immediately la [...] D
Tomasso slips a violoncello part to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" into the clarinet book for "Il Tr [...] D
When Otis Driftwood arrives at his "suite" on the boat, the first time he enters, the room is small. [...] D

Frase

Otis B. Driftwood: Do you rhumba? Potential Dance [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [hands Fiorello a pen to sign a [...] D
Lassparri: [to Tomasso] What do you mean by humili [...] D
Henderson: I note the table is set for four. Otis [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [to Tomasso, who's knocked out [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Was that a high C, or Vitamin D [...] D
Mrs. Claypool: I've been sitting right here since [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Do they allow tipping on the bo [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Well, that's fine. If that stew [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: That's the fire escape. And, uh [...] D
Henderson: Hey, who were you talking to? Otis B. [...] D
[upon seeing a cast member made up to appear hideo [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Could he sail tomorrow? Fiorel [...] D
Fiorello: [Disguised as one of the world's greates [...] D
Mrs. Claypool: If you had any real feeling for me [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Now, uh, here are the contracts [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: I have arranged for you to inve [...] D
Herbert Gottlieb: Mrs. Claypool, you're as charmin [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [at the opera] Well, who's ahea [...] D
Fiorello: You gotta some mail for me? Tony: Mail [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: You see that spaghetti? Now, be [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Let's go in my room and talk th [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Steward, steward! Stew! Ship's [...] D
Fiorello: Wait a minute. Before he sings, you gott [...] D
Henderson: You live here all alone? Otis B. Drift [...] D
Ricardo: Because I'm in love with you, you call me [...] D
Fiorello: I give this to Riccardo. Herbert Gottli [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: It's none of my business, but I [...] D
Lassparri: [costumed as Pagliacci] Now, what have [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the lo [...] D
[in reference to Tomasso] Otis B. Driftwood: Woul [...] D
Henderson: Am I crazy or are there only two beds i [...] D
Fiorello: What's the matter, mister? Otis B. Drif [...] D
Manicurist: Did you want your nails long or short? [...] D
Ricardo: [singing] These funny little words don't [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: You didn't happen to see my sui [...] D
Herbert Gottlieb: If you pardon my saying so, Mrs. [...] D
Mrs. Claypool: Get off that bed. What would people [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: This is the opening of a new op [...] D
[the ship is sailing away from the dock] Otis B. [...] D
Mrs. Claypool: Mr. Claypool went to his reward thr [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [to carriage driver] Hey you. I [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Could he sail tomorrow? Fiorel [...] D
Ship Captain: Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasur [...] D
Ricardo: And what was it you wanted to see me abou [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [in an overcrowded stateroom] I [...] D
Fiorello: Is this the opera house? Herbert Gottli [...] D
Mrs. Claypool: Are you sure you have everything, O [...] D
Fiorello: How do you do? Otis B. Driftwood: [rest [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Hello toots. Mrs. Claypool: We [...] D
[Driftwood agrees to read the contract to Fiorello [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Ladies and gentlemen... I guess [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: We've still got all day to thin [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [talking about "the greatest te [...] D
Herbert Gottlieb: [to Mrs. Claypool] All of New Yo [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: And now, on with the opera. Let [...] D
Fiorello: [beginning a speech disguised as one of [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Don't you know what duplicates [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: You're willing to pay him a tho [...] D
Fiorello: Shhh! Don't wake him up. He's got insomn [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Say, I just remembered, I came [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: You know the old saying. Two's [...] D
[the waiter brings the bill] Otis B. Driftwood: L [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: And eight pieces of French past [...] D
Ricardo: But I will still remember the happiness w [...] D
Engineer's Assistant: I'm the engineer's assistant [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Two beers, bartender! Fiorello [...] D
Henderson: The last time I was in this room there [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: That woman? Do you know why I s [...] D
Lassparri: Never in my life have I received such t [...] D
Herbert Gottlieb: All right, only quick. Quick, wh [...] D
[Driftwood opens a drawer in his trunk to find Tom [...] D
Fiorello: Can you read? Otis B. Driftwood: [holds [...] D
Manicurist: Did you want a manicure? Otis B. Drif [...] D
Captain: Ladies and gentleman. It's a great pleasu [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Have you got any milk-fed chick [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: It's all right, that's in every [...] D
[Fiorello and Driftwood go over the second clause [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: [attempting to sell insurance t [...] D
Henderson: What's a hermit doing with four beds? [...] D
Fiorello: What'll I say? Otis B. Driftwood: Tell [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Signor Lassparri comes from a v [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Now we're getting somewhere. D
Herbert Gottlieb: [finds Driftwood, Fiorello, Toma [...] D
Fiorello: [Driftwood, Fiorello, Tomasso and Ricard [...] D
Ship Captain: I cannot let the evening pass withou [...] D
Henderson: Say, what's that bed doing here? Otis [...] D
Henderson: Say! Now, how did those two beds get to [...] D
Otis B. Driftwood: Two beers, bartender! Fiorello [...] D
[Fiorello and Driftwood go over the first clause o [...] D
Fiorello: [Fiorello, Tomasso, and Ricardo has just [...] D
Lassparri: [to Tomasso] Take off that dress, do yo [...] D
[first lines] Waiter: The gentleman has not arriv [...] D

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