In their first film for MGM, the Marx Brothers are required to show a kinder, gentler side, in keeping with Producer Irving Thalberg's belief that audiences would like them better if they were helpful to others, instead of mocking them all the time. Thus, the brothers are called upon to play anarchic cupids to a pair of starcrossed opera singers. But this act of altruism is essentially an excuse for quintessential Marx mayhem, with Groucho helping mostly himself, as usual, and the musical setting allowing for a collision between Harpo and Chico's vulgar vaudeville virtuosity and the genteel strains of classical opera. Guess who comes out best? All this, plus Margaret Dumont and the legendary State Room sequence. And NO Zeppo. Who says there ain't no Sanity Clause?