A Night at the Opera (1935)
November 18, 2022 2:12 PM - Subscribe
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. Trailer.
Has one of my all time favorite scenes.
posted by gudrun at 3:47 PM on November 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by gudrun at 3:47 PM on November 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
Peak Marx Bros.
It wasn’t until I first saw this movie that I discovered Kitty Carlisle was someone other than just a face on game shows.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:15 PM on November 18, 2022
It wasn’t until I first saw this movie that I discovered Kitty Carlisle was someone other than just a face on game shows.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:15 PM on November 18, 2022
And 2 hard-boiled eggs … (*honk*) Make that 3 hard-boiled eggs.
posted by wabbittwax at 9:29 AM on November 19, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by wabbittwax at 9:29 AM on November 19, 2022 [2 favorites]
> Has one of my all time favorite scenes
I knew what it would be before I clicked. So good.
posted by The corpse in the library at 1:19 PM on November 19, 2022 [2 favorites]
I knew what it would be before I clicked. So good.
posted by The corpse in the library at 1:19 PM on November 19, 2022 [2 favorites]
It seems to be Gordon Sumner's favorite scene, too. Or maybe Alex Proyas' .
"The seriousness of Sting’s lyric is offset by comic visuals that have him struggling to finish his number on a rolling, overpopulated ship of fools."
posted by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 3:14 PM on November 19, 2022
"The seriousness of Sting’s lyric is offset by comic visuals that have him struggling to finish his number on a rolling, overpopulated ship of fools."
posted by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 3:14 PM on November 19, 2022
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At some point, I know I watched a broadcast version where they showed interview bits with Kitty Carlisle, and with Lewis J. Stadlen (who played Groucho in Minnie's Boys in 1970), but I am not finding details in my quick internet searches.
Before that, any Groucho awareness I had was Alan Alda doing Groucho-style bits in M*A*S*H. This was a pretty powerful hit of that same smart-assery drug for teenage me.
"You'll be a patron of the opera! You'll get into society. Then you can marry me and they'll kick you out of society and all you've lost is $200,000." -hunh, this is making me think of Elongated Muskrat and Twitter, for some reason.
posted by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 3:46 PM on November 18, 2022 [3 favorites]