Metropolitan (1935 film)

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 Fox Film Corporation.

Plot summary

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

References

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1935 films

1935 romantic drama films

1930s romantic musical films

American musical drama films

American romantic drama films

American romantic musical films

American black-and-white films

Films directed by Ryszard Bolesławski

Films about opera

20th Century Fox films

Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck

Twentieth Century Pictures films

1930s American films