A Day at the Races (movie)
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A Day at the Races (1937) is the seventh movie starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan.
The plot revolves around Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho), who is a veterinarian illegally employed as the medical director of Standish Sanitarium owned by Judy Standish (Maureen). Among other things they have to do to save the sanitarium from developers is to keep Mrs. Upjohn (Dumont) as a patient. She, of course, insists on being treated only by Dr. Hackenbush. To try to expose Groucho as a fraud, the bad guys call in Dr. Steinberg, who is played by Siegfried Rumann (also known as Sig Ruman), who was also Groucho's nemesis in A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca. Exterior sequences were filmed at Santa Anita Park.
Often considered one of the funniest scenes in the movie, Chico gives Groucho a tip on a horse, but in code, so that Groucho has to buy book after book from Chico to decipher the code (see image).
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Some of the songs in the movie by Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, and Gus Kahn include "Tomorrow Is Another Day," "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm," and "Cosi-Cosa."
Although well received, many fans consider this film the beginning of the Brothers' decline in film. Part of the reason they see is that the film's producer, and the Brothers' leading advocate at MGM, Irving Thalberg, died in mid production and thus the studio executive who best understood the Brothers' humor was gone.
External links
- IMDb entry for A Day at the Races (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028772/)