The Marx Brothers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Movies 1935 - 1941

1935
A Night at the Opera (92 minutes). ( Irving Thalberg producing.) Director: Sam Wood. Screenplay: GeorgeS. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Additional Material: Al Boasberg.Story: James Kevin McGuinness. Cast: Groucho ( Otis B. Driftwood), Chico (Fiorella), Harpo (Tomasso), Kitty Carlisle (Rosa), Alan Jones(Ricardo), Walter King (Lassparri), Siegfried Rumann ( Herman Gottlieg),Margaret Dumont (Mrs. Claypool), Edward Keane (The Captain), RobertEmmet O'Connor ( Detective Henderson), Billy Gilbert (Engineer'sAssistant), Leo White, Jay Eaton, and Rolf Sedan (Aviators).

1937
A Day at the Races (109 minutes). ( Irving Thalberg production; he died after the road tour.) Director: SamWood. Cast: Groucho (Dr. Hugh Z. Hackenbush), Chico ( Tony), Harpo(Stuffy), Allan Jones (Gil), Maureen O'Sullivan ( Judy Standish), Mar-garet Dumont (Mrs. Emily Upjohn), Leonard Ceeley (Whitmore), Douglas Dumbrille (Morgan), Esther Muir (Miss Nora--"Flo"), SiegfriedRumann (Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg), Robert Middlemass (The Sheriff),Vivien Fay (Solo Dancer), Ivie Anderson and the Crinoline Choir (Sing-ers), Charles Trowbridge (Dr. Wilmerding), Pat Flaherty (Detective),Frank Dawson and Max Lucke (Doctors).


1939
At the Circus (87 minutes). Producer: Mervyn LeRoy. Director: Edward Buzzell. Screenplay: Irving Brecher. Music: Harold Arlen. Lyrics: E. Y. Harburg (including"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady"). Cast: Groucho ( Attorney J. CheeverLoophole), Chico (Antonio), Harpo (Punchy), Kenny Baker ( JeffWilson), Florence Rice ( Julie Randall), Eve Arden ( Peerless Pauline), Margaret Dumont (Mrs. Dukesburg), Nat Pendleton (Goliath), FritzFeld (Jardinet), James Burke ( John Carter), Jerry Marenghi (LittleProfessor Atom), Barnett Parker (Whitcomb), Frank Orth (LunchroomAttendant).

1940
Go West (80 minutes). Producer: Jack Cummings. Director: Edward Buzzell. Screenplay: IrvingBrecher. Music and Lyrics: Gus Kahn and Roger Edens, BronislauKaper, Charles Wakefield Cadman. Cast: Groucho ( S. Quentin Quale), Chico ( Joe Panello), Harpo ( "Rusty" Panello), John Carroll ( TerryTurner), Diana Lewis ( Eve Wilson), Walter Wolf King (Beecher), RobertBarrat ("Red" Baxter), June MacCloy (Lulubella), George Lessey (Rail-road President), Mitchell Lewis (Halfbreed), Tully Marshall ( Dan Wilson), Harry Tyler (Telegraph Clerk).

1941
The Big Store (83 minutes). Producer: Louis K. Sidney. Director: Charles Reisner. Screenplay: SidKuller, Hal Fimberg, and Ray Golden. Story: Nat Perrin. Music: HalBorne. Lyrics: Sid Kuller and Hal Fimberg. Cast: Groucho ( Wolf J. Fly-wheel), Chico (Ravelli), Harpo (Wacky), Tony Martin ( Tommy Rogers),Virginia Grey ( Joan Sutton), Margaret Dumont ( Martha Phelps), DouglasDumbrille (Mr. Grover), William Tannen ( Fred Sutton), Marion Martin( Peggy Arden), Virginia O'Brien (Kitty), Henry Armetta (Guiseppi), Anna Demetrio (Maria), Paul Stanton ( George Hastings), Russel Hicks( Arthur Hastings), Bradley Page ( Duke), and Charles Holland.

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