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Auction History Result 9h717 NIGHT AT THE OPERA candid 8x10.25 still 1935 Groucho, Chico & Harpo hanging on coat rack! Date Sold 9/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) A Night at the Opera, the classic 1935 Sam Wood screwball musical opera romantic comedy starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood, Chico Marx as Fiorello, and Harpo Marx as Tomasso), Kitty Carlisle (as Rosa Castaldi), Allan Jones (as Ricardo Baroni), Walter Woolf King (billed as "Walter King"; as Rodolfo Lassparri), Sig Ruman (as Herbert Gottlieb), and Margaret Dumont (as Mrs. Claypool). Note that MGM added a romantic plot to the Marx Bros. typical screwball comedy, and it really adds to the movie, as Carlisle and Jones have real chemistry together, and their songs are excellent. Of course, this is also the movie that has the Marx Bros.' most famous comedy scene, the "stateroom" scene, plus the great scene of Groucho and Chico attempting to sign a contract! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this great candid gag photograph was created in 1935 when the Marx Brothers made "A Night at the Opera". It has a snipe on the back, which says the name of that movie, and it has a date stamp of "NOV 1935" on the back (it also has a date stamp from 1955 and newspaper clippings from 1955, but those are from when the still was reused 20 years later). It is interesting to note that we previously auctioned a different still that had this same image, but had a different still code at the bottom, and that still had a 1936 date on the back, so clearly they reused this image the following year (and since that still did not have a movie named on the back, it was likely used to promote their next MGM movie, "A Day at the Races", which came out in 1937. Also note that the other still had a photo credit for Virgil Apger, and while this still does not have that photo credit, one must assume that Apger did take this great gag photo! Also note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Condition: good to very good. There are tape stains and surface paper loss in the bottom border and some light creases scattered throughout the still. Learn More about condition grades 
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