A Night at the Opera (the film) premiered

November 15, 1935 –

… 9 dollars and 40 cents? This is an outrage! …If I were you I wouldn’t pay it .

The Marx Brother’s first film made without Zeppo, A Night at the Opera, first opened on this date.

In exasperation after several attempts to have Groucho Marx read one of his lines in the manner director Sam Wood had requested, Wood exclaimed, “I guess you just can’t make an actor out of clay.” Groucho Marx instantly responded, “Nor a director out of Wood.”