Metropolitan (1935 film)

Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera.

Metropolitan
Directed by	Richard Boleslawski
Written by	Bess Meredyth George Marion, Jr.
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Lawrence Tibbett Virginia Bruce
Cinematography	Rudolph Maté George Schneiderman
Edited by	Barbara McLean
Production company	Twentieth Century Pictures
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	November 8, 1935 (1935-11-08)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.