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Release Date: 1937 Cast: Sig Ruman, Esther Muir, Groucho Marx, Allan Jones, Vivien Fay, Harpo Marx, Douglass Dumbrille, Leonard Ceeley, Ivie Anderson, Robert Middlemass, Leonard Marx, Maureen O'Sullivan ...MORE
Cast: Sig Ruman, Esther Muir, Groucho Marx, Allan Jones, Vivien Fay, Harpo Marx, Douglass Dumbrille, Leonard Ceeley, Ivie Anderson, Robert Middlemass, Leonard Marx, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dudley Dickerson, Margaret Dumont ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Comedy of Errors, Black-and-white, Slapstick A Day at the Races is the seventh film starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Like their previous MGM feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit.
Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is a veterinarian who is hired as chief of staff for the Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan), at the insistence of her most important patient, the rich Mrs. Upjohn, (Margaret Dumont), who insists on being treated only by Dr. Hackenbush. The Sanitarium has fallen on hard times, and banker J.D. Morgan (Douglas Dumbrille)... MORE
A Day at the Races is the seventh film starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Like their previous MGM feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit.
Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is a veterinarian who is hired as chief of staff for the Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan), at the insistence of her most important patient, the rich Mrs. Upjohn, (Margaret Dumont), who insists on being treated only by Dr. Hackenbush. The Sanitarium has fallen on hard times, and banker J.D. Morgan (Douglas Dumbrille) is attempting to gain control of it. Judy hopes that Mrs. Upjohn will make a large donation and stop that from happening.
Meanwhile, Judy's boyfriend, singer Gil Stewart (Allan Jones), has taken his life's savings and bought a horse with it, instead of paying for vocal lessons to further his career as a radio singer. His hope is that the horse, Hi-Hat, will win a big race, and the money will save the sanitarium. Unfortunately, he now has no money to pay for the horse's feed, and he and Tony (Chico Marx), who works for the sanitarium, and Snuffy (Harpo Marx), Hi-Hat's jockey, have to resort to LESS
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