Margaret Dumont
Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA — Oct 19 1882• Died Mar 06 1965
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Biography
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 she's 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 c…
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Margaret Dumont's Credits
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The Donna Reed Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Racket Squad
Auntie Mame
Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
Duck Soup
Gloria Teasdale
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
A Night at the Opera
Mrs. Claypool
What a Way to Go!
Mrs. Foster
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
Bathing Beauty
Mrs. Allenwood
Up in Arms
Mrs. Willoughby
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Wise Girl
Mrs. Bell-Rivington
Storm at Daybreak
Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
At the Circus
Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
The Big Store
Martha Phelps
Rhythm Parade
Ophelia MacDougal
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
(archive footage)
Youth on Parole
Mrs. Abernathy
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
A Day at the Races
Emily Upjohn
Dramatic School
Pantomime Teacher
The Girl Habit
Blanche Ledyard
Gridiron Flash
Mrs. Fields
Reckless
Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Georgianna Fitzdingle
Born to Sing
Mrs. E. V. Lawson
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
Fifteen Wives
Sybilla Crum
The Dancing Masters
Louise Harlan
Rendezvous
Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
Sunset in El Dorado
Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
Little Giant
Mrs. Hendrickson
Stop, You're Killing Me
Mrs. Whitelaw
Zotz!
Persephone Updike
High Flyers
Martha Arlington
The Cocoanuts
Mrs. Potter
Animal Crackers
Mrs. Rittenhouse
Kentucky Kernels
Mrs. Baxter
The Life of the Party
Mrs. Penner
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
(archive footage)
Enemies of Women
French Beauty
Anything Goes
Mrs. Wentworth
Seven Days Ashore
Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
Sing Your Worries Away
Flo Faulkner - Landlady
Three for Bedroom C
Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
For Beauty's Sake
Mrs. Franklin Evans
Song and Dance Man
Mrs. Whitney
After Office Hours
Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
About Face
Mrs. Culpepper
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Mrs. Hemogloben
A Tale of Two Cities
Aristocrat (uncredited)
Diamond Horseshoe
Mrs. Standish
Susie Steps Out
Mrs. Starr
Wonderland of California
Self
Gypsy Sweetheart
Mrs. Van Updyke
Around the World with Nellie Bly
Dowager #1
Here, Prince
The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
Arbor Day
Woman Outside (uncredited)