Metropolitan (1935 film)
- November 8, 1935 (1935-11-08)
Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera.
Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski (credited as Richard Boleslawski), it featured the famous baritone Lawrence Tibbett (in his penultimate movie role), with Virginia Bruce as his leading lady. Tibbett was America's leading baritone and a major star of the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he sang more than 600 times.
Metropolitan was the first production for the 20th Century-Fox film studio, which had been newly formed from the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and the Fox Film Corporation.
Plot
Cast
- Lawrence Tibbett as Thomas Renwick
- Virginia Bruce as Anne Merrill
- Alice Brady as Ghita Galin
- Cesar Romero as Niki Baroni
- Thurston Hall as T. Simon Hunter
- Luis Alberni as Ugo Pizzi
- George F. Marion as Papa Perontelli
- Adrian Rosley as Tolentino
- Christian Rub as Weidel
- Franklyn Ardell as Marco
- Etienne Girardot as Nello
- Jessie Ralph as Charwoman
- Jane Darwell as Grandma
- Walter Brennan as Grandpa
- Gladys Earlcott as Wardrobe woman
- Adrian Morris as Electrician
Production
Release
This was the first film production for the 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, which was newly formed through the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures.
References
External links
- Metropolitan at IMDb
- Metropolitan at AllMovie
- Metropolitan at the TCM Movie Database
- Metropolitan at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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- Virginia Fox (wife)
- Richard D. Zanuck (son)
- Dean Zanuck (grandson)
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