Enter producer Irving Thalberg, who approached Groucho with the idea of switching to MGM, telling him, “I can make a film with you that would have half as many laughs as your Paramount films, but they will be more effective because the audience will be in sympathy with you.” (A) And so A Night at the Opera was born, a comeback of sorts for history’s most talented group of comedians.īack were writers George S. On top of that, the fourth Marx Brother and youngest of the bunch, Zeppo, was out of the gang, leaving just Groucho, Harpo and Chico, which was OK by practically everyone. Duck Soup had just flopped at the box office and, as a result, Paramount had just terminated their contract. Made just two years after Duck Soup, it came at a rough time for the Marx Bros. Then, in 2007, when it came time for a 10th Anniversary List, the AFI again tapped Duck Soup for the list, only now there was an exciting new addition, yet another Marx Brothers film, the always entertaining and yet odd pairing of music and madcap, A Night at the Opera. So when the AFI named its Top 100 Films of All Time in 1997, Duck Soup was an obvious shoe-in.
And rightfully so it’s hands down their funniest film. On most every best list, the default Marx Brothers selection is Duck Soup (1933). Music: Nacio Herb Brown, Walter Jurmann, Bronislau Kaper, Herbert StohartĬast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O’Connor Writers: James Kevin McGuinness, George S.
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