Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
- opera
- cross dressing
- whimsical
- farcical
- ridiculous
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Allan Jones — Ricardo Barroni
- Sig Ruman — Gottlieb
- Walter Woolf King — Lassparri
- Robert Emmett O'Connor — Henderson
- Margaret Dumont — Mrs. Claypool
- Edward Keane — Captain
- Evelyn Selbie — The Fortune Teller in 'Trovatore' (uncredited)
- Purnell Pratt — The Mayor of New York (uncredited)
- Jonathan Hale — The Stage Manager (uncredited)
- Otto Fries — Otto the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Gino Corrado — First Porter (uncredited)
- Directed
- Sam Wood
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 558 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
