Margaret Dumont actress
- All known tv series 4
- Total known movies 55
Margaret Dumont would probably consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers films (including most of their best). By all accounts she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on), which is of course a major reason why shes so funny. Apart from a small role in a 1917 Dickens adaptation, she spent her early career on the stage, ending up with the Marxes in the late 1920s in the stage versions of The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930), and was given a Paramount contract at the same time they were. She played similar roles alongside other great comedians, including W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy and Jack Benny and also played straight dramatic parts (her chief love), but few of them made much impact - it is as Groucho Marxs foil that she ranks among the immortals, and she died shortly after being reunited with him on The Hollywood Palace (1964).
Gloria Teasdale
Movie 1933
Mrs. Potter
Movie 1929
Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
Movie 1939
Martha Phelps
Movie 1941
(archive footage)
Movie 1979
Mrs. Rittenhouse
Movie 1930
Mrs. Hemogloben
Movie 1941
Mrs. Hendrickson
Movie 1946
Mrs. Allenwood
Movie 1944
Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Movie 1945
Louise Harlan
Movie 1943
Mrs. Whitelaw
Movie 1952
(archive footage)
Movie 1982
Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Mrs. Standish
Movie 1945
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1972
Mrs. Culpepper
Movie 1942
Mrs. Willoughby
Movie 1944
Mrs. Bell-Rivington
Movie 1937
Mrs. Wentworth
Movie 1936
Pantomime Teacher
Movie 1938
Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
Movie 1952
Mrs. Abernathy
Movie 1937
Mrs. Fields
Movie 1934
Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Sybilla Crum
Movie 1934
Flo Faulkner - Landlady
Movie 1942
Martha Arlington
Movie 1937
Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
Movie 1944
Mrs. Penner
Movie 1937
Mrs. E. V. Lawson
Movie 1942
Mrs. Foster
Movie 1964
Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Persephone Updike
Movie 1962
Georgianna Fitzdingle
Movie 1956
Self
Movie 1933
Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Mrs. Whitney
Movie 1936
Mrs. Baxter
Movie 1934
Ophelia MacDougal
Movie 1942
The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Self (archiveFootage)
Movie 2002
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Movie 1934
Mrs. Van Updyke
Movie 1935
Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
Movie 1945
Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
Movie 1942
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1975
Aristocrat (uncredited)
Movie 1917
(archive footage)
Movie 1976
Mrs. Franklin Evans
Movie 1941
Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
Movie 1958
Blanche Ledyard
Movie 1931
Woman talking to the midgets outside
Movie 1936
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1958
Self
Tv 1956
Tv 1951
