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).

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A Day at the Races

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A Night at the Opera

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Filmes indisponível de Margaret Dumont

Duck Soup

Gloria Teasdale

Filme 1933

The Cocoanuts

Mrs. Potter

Filme 1929

At the Circus

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury

Filme 1939

The Big Store

Martha Phelps

Filme 1941

The Hollywood Clowns

(archive footage)

Filme 1979

Animal Crackers

Mrs. Rittenhouse

Filme 1930

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Mrs. Hemogloben

Filme 1941

Little Giant

Mrs. Hendrickson

Filme 1946

Bathing Beauty

Mrs. Allenwood

Filme 1944

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder

Filme 1945

The Dancing Masters

Louise Harlan

Filme 1943

Stop, You're Killing Me

Mrs. Whitelaw

Filme 1952

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

(archive footage)

Filme 1982

Rendezvous

Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)

Filme 1935

Diamond Horseshoe

Mrs. Standish

Filme 1945

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1972

About Face

Mrs. Culpepper

Filme 1942

Up in Arms

Mrs. Willoughby

Filme 1944

Wise Girl

Mrs. Bell-Rivington

Filme 1937

Anything Goes

Mrs. Wentworth

Filme 1936

Dramatic School

Pantomime Teacher

Filme 1938

Three for Bedroom C

Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne

Filme 1952

Youth on Parole

Mrs. Abernathy

Filme 1937

Gridiron Flash

Mrs. Fields

Filme 1934

Reckless

Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)

Filme 1935

Fifteen Wives

Sybilla Crum

Filme 1934

Sing Your Worries Away

Flo Faulkner - Landlady

Filme 1942

High Flyers

Martha Arlington

Filme 1937

Seven Days Ashore

Mrs. Croxton-Lynch

Filme 1944

The Life of the Party

Mrs. Penner

Filme 1937

Born to Sing

Mrs. E. V. Lawson

Filme 1942

What a Way to Go!

Mrs. Foster

Filme 1964

Storm at Daybreak

Duchess Sophie (uncredited)

Filme 1933

Zotz!

Persephone Updike

Filme 1962

Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Georgianna Fitzdingle

Filme 1956

Wonderland of California

Self

Filme 1933

After Office Hours

Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)

Filme 1935

Song and Dance Man

Mrs. Whitney

Filme 1936

Kentucky Kernels

Mrs. Baxter

Filme 1934

Rhythm Parade

Ophelia MacDougal

Filme 1942

Here, Prince

The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)

Filme 1932

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

Self (archiveFootage)

Filme 2002

We're Rich Again

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Filme 1934

Gypsy Sweetheart

Mrs. Van Updyke

Filme 1935

Sunset in El Dorado

Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella

Filme 1945

Tales of Manhattan

Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)

Filme 1942

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1975

A Tale of Two Cities

Aristocrat (uncredited)

Filme 1917

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

Filme 1976

For Beauty's Sake

Mrs. Franklin Evans

Filme 1941

Auntie Mame

Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)

Filme 1958

The Girl Habit

Blanche Ledyard

Filme 1931

Arbor Day

Woman talking to the midgets outside

Filme 1936

Série de TV indisponível de Margaret Dumont

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self

Tv 1950

The Donna Reed Show

Tv 1958

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self

Tv 1956

Racket Squad

Tv 1951