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'Present at the Creation:' 'A Night at the Opera'

After the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup flopped, the talk around Hollywood was that America's most popular comedy team was washed up. But their follow-up, A Night at the Opera, became their biggest hit. Jeff Lunden looks behind the curtain of the 1935 classic as part of the Present at the Creation series on cultural icons.

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