A Day at the Races is the seventh film starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Like their previous MGM feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit. Hugo Z. Hackenbush is a veterinarian who is hired as chief of staff for the Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish , at the insistence of her most important patient, the rich Mrs. Upjohn, , who insists on being treated only by Dr. Hackenbush. The Sanitarium has fallen on hard times, and banker J.D. Morgan is attempting to gain control of it. Judy hopes that Mrs. Upjohn will... make a large donation and stop that from happening. Meanwhile, Judy's boyfriend, singer Gil Stewart , has taken his life's savings and bought a horse with it, instead of paying for vocal lessons to further his career as a radio singer. His hope is that the horse, Hi-Hat, will win a big race, and the money will save the sanitarium.
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| Release date: | June 11, 1937 |
| Directed by: | Sam Wood |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood, Lawrence Weingarten |
| Editor: | Frank E. Hull |
| Music by: | Bronisław Kaper, Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Pirosh |
| Genre: | Comedy |