A Night at the Opera (film) DVD commentary. But this could not have occurred, because Sam Marx had died in 1933, during pre-production of "Duck Soup", two years before "A Night at the Opera" was released. The rumor arose because Frenchy had had such a cameo appearance in the Marx Brothers' earlier "Monkey Business". There is, however, a reference to the Marx Brothers' mother, Minnie Marx, during the stateroom scene, in which a woman asks, "Is my Aunt Minnie in here?" Part of the concept of casting the Marx Brothers as stowaways on a ship was recycled from "Monkey Business". As Groucho's and Margaret Dumont's characters
Stowaways on the Ark Stowaways on the Ark Stowaways on the Ark is a 1988 German animated adventure film, released theatrically in Germany as In der Arche ist der Wurm drin by United International Pictures on 24 March 1988. It's inspired by the story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis. The film was later dubbed in English and released in the United States and Canada. There was a European release of the movie's original soundtrack, published by Frank Pleyer company, Junior Musikproduktion Frank Pleyer KG. Recordings were made in Elmulab Studio, and Union Studios in Munich, and it was mastered in Tonstudio