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A Night At the Opera

A Night At the Opera is a 1935 comedy film in which the Marx Brothers help two young lovers to succeed in love as well as in the opera world. It stars Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Siegfried Rumann and Margaret Dumont.

The movie was adapted by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg (uncredited) and Buster Keaton (uncredited) from a story by James Kevin McGuinness. It was directed by Sam Wood and has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Famous quote:

I've been sitting right here since 7:00.
Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.