Un giorno alle corse (1937)
Approfittando di un'ipoteca che grava su una clinica, il cattivo Morgan vorrebbe trasformarla in una casa da gioco. La situazione è salvata in extremis col denaro vinto a una corsa di cavalli. Passati dalla Paramount alla M-G-M, i fratelli Marx devono fare i conti con gli eredi di Irving Thalberg, morto tre mesi prima dell'inizio delle riprese, che, come in Una notte all'Opera, cercano di smorzare i loro eccessi aggressivi e dare al prodotto una scorrevole gradevolezza in linea con le tradizioni della casa. Così il marxismo convive con i cavalli (Groucho veterinario che si spaccia per medico), una scenografia sfarzosa, stereotipate musiche romantiche. Ma non mancano né le trasgressioni né le sequenze di travolgente buffoneria: il consulto medico, la scena all'ippodromo in cui Chico, travestito da gelataio, cerca di vendere a Groucho un'informazione sicura.
Direttore:
Sam Wood
Scrittori:
George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, Robert Pirosh.
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Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush |
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Chico Marx as Tony |
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Harpo Marx as Stuffy |
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Allan Jones as Gil Stewart |
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Maureen O'Sullivan as Judy Standish |
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Margaret Dumont as Emily Upjohn |
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Sig Ruman as Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg |
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Leonard Ceeley as Whitmore |
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Douglass Dumbrille as Morgan |
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Esther Muir as 'Flo' Marlowe |
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Robert Middlemass as Sheriff |
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Vivien Fay as Specialty Dancer |
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Ivie Anderson as Specialty Singer |
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Gino Corrado as Man Boarding Bus (uncredited) |
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Bess Flowers as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) |
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Bert Moorhouse as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) |
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Frank O'Connor as Racetrack Guard (uncredited) |
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Carole Landis as Party Guest (uncredited) |
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Etta Moten as Black Singer (uncredited) |
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Dorothy Dandridge as Singer (uncredited) |
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Byron Foulger as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) |
| Production | Sam Wood | Producer |
| Writing | George Seaton | Screenplay |
| Production | Irving Thalberg | Producer |
| Production | Lawrence Weingarten | Producer |
| Camera | Joseph Ruttenberg | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Frank E. Hull | Editor |
| Writing | George Oppenheimer | Screenplay |
| Directing | Sam Wood | Director |
| Writing | Robert Pirosh | Screenplay |
| Sound | Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Robert A. Golden | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Leonard Smith | Director of Photography |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Writing | Robert Pirosh | Story |
| Writing | George Seaton | Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dolly Tree | Wardrobe Designer |
| Art | Edwin B. Willis | Art Department Assistant |
| Sound | Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Sound | Bronislau Kaper | Songs |
| Sound | Walter Jurmann | Songs |
| Writing | Gus Kahn | Lyricist |
