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Which real-life spy inspired Sam Woodâs film Stamboul Quest?
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(Foreground, from left to right) Groucho Marx, Margaret Dumont, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in A Night at the Opera (1935), directed by Sam Wood.
The film Stamboul Quest (1934), directed by Sam Wood, was inspired by the real-life German spy known as FrÀulein Doktor.1