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Metropolitan is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Boleslawski released in USA on 8 november 1935 with Virginia Bruce
Metropolitan (1935)
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Add to a movie listMetropolitan 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 20th Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.
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Le film dépeint la vie des jeunes de la haute société newyorkaise dans les quartiers de Manhattan et Long Island.Actors
Virginia Bruce
(Anne Merrill)
Chris Eigeman
Alice Brady
(Ghita Galin)
Carolyn Farina
Cesar Romero
(Niki Baroni)
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