Metropolitan 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 distribution for the 20th Century-Fox film studio, which had been newly formed from the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation. Plot summary Cast Lawrence Tibbett as Thomas Renwick Virginia Bruce as Anne Merrill Alice Brady as Ghita Galin Cesar Romero as Niki Baroni Thurston Hall as T. Simon Hunter Luis Alberni as Ugo Pizzi George F. Marion as Papa Perontelli Adrian Rosley as Tolentino Christian Rub as Weidel Franklyn Ardell as Marco Etienne Girardot as Nello Jessie Ralph as Charwoman Jane Darwell as Grandma Walter Brennan as Grandpa Gladys Earlcott as Wardrobe woman Adrian Morris as Electrician References External links 1935 films 1935 romantic drama films 1930s romantic musical films American musical drama films American romantic drama films American romantic musical films American black-and-white films Films directed by Ryszard Bolesławski Films about opera 20th Century Fox films Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Twentieth Century Pictures films 1930s American films