This is an original MGM 1948 reissue of the One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Sam Wood directed Marx Brothers’ comedy classic, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935) starring the wacky trio, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle, and Margaret Dumont. Considered by some critics to be the best Marx Brothers films, it certainly boasts some of the finest examples of their uncanny wit and physical comedy. The brothers get mixed up with an opera company and a divo and diva (Jones and Carlisle) in love. In the attempt to bring the lovebirds together – both onstage and off – the Brothers create comic mayhem along with romantic merriment. Allan Jones, the father of sixties singer Jack Jones, and Kitty Carlisle, future wife of playwright Moss Hart, also turn in memorable performances. The ending is true Marx Brothers’ genius at its best when Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” is wonderfully mangled for all time. This reissued one sheet poster is linen-backed and in very fine condition with some restoration repairing fold separations and pinholes in the corners.

Original 1935 posters for this film are rare and would probably cost in the $8000-$10,000 range — IF you could find a collector willing to sell one.