A Night At The Opera (1948R) *SIGNED*

A Night at the Opera saved the Marx Brothers. After Duck Soup disappointed at the box office, Irving Thalberg brought them to MGM and had them try out the best routines on a stage tour before a single scene was filmed, timing every laugh. The result includes the stateroom scene, in which an ocean-liner cabin the size of a cupboard fills with an impossible crowd of stewards, manicurists and a plumber, still one of the great set pieces of screen comedy. Forty years later Queen named their 1975 album after the film, and followed it with A Day at the Races.

This Window Card comes from MGM's 1948 re-release, with artwork by Al Hirschfeld, the great caricaturist of Broadway, and it has the added distinction of being signed by Groucho Marx himself. Signed Marx Brothers cinema paper is a rare thing, and Hirschfeld and Groucho together make it rarer still.

• Year: 1948 Re-release
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Folded
• Type: Original Window Card, signed by Groucho Marx
• Size: 14 x 22 inches
• Product Code: W4755