Cast
Margaret Dumont
Acting
Cast
Margaret Dumont
Known for
Acting
Born
1882-10-19
From
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died
1965-03-06
Also known as Daisy Juliette Baker, ΠΠ°ΡΠ³Π°ΡΠ΅Ρ ΠΡΠΌΠΎΠ½
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 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 Marx's foil that she ranks among the immortals, and she died shortly after being reunited with him on "The Hollywood Palace" (1964).
Bathing Beauty
as Mrs. Allenwood
Anything Goes
as Mrs. Wentworth
Duck Soup
as Gloria Teasdale
Gridiron Flash
as Mrs. Fields
What a Way to Go!
as Mrs. Foster
Auntie Mame
as Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
A Night at the Opera
as Mrs. Claypool
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Fifteen Wives
as Sybilla Crum
Rendezvous
as Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
High Flyers
as Martha Arlington
Diamond Horseshoe
as Mrs. Standish
Rhythm Parade
as Ophelia MacDougal
A Day at the Races
as Emily Upjohn
The Big Store
as Martha Phelps
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Reckless
as Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
About Face
as Mrs. Culpepper
Animal Crackers
as Mrs. Rittenhouse
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
as Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
At the Circus
as Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
Up in Arms
as Mrs. Willoughby
The Cocoanuts
as Mrs. Potter
Youth on Parole
as Mrs. Abernathy
Zotz!
as Persephone Updike
Little Giant
as Mrs. Hendrickson
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
as (archive footage)
The Horn Blows at Midnight
as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
as Mrs. Hemogloben
Wise Girl
as Mrs. Bell-Rivington
The Hollywood Clowns
as (archive footage)
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Mrs. Whitelaw
Sunset in El Dorado
as Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
Born to Sing
as Mrs. E. V. Lawson
The Girl Habit
as Blanche Ledyard
Storm at Daybreak
as Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
Dramatic School
as Pantomime Teacher
The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Penner
Wonderland of California
as Self
For Beauty's Sake
as Mrs. Franklin Evans
Kentucky Kernels
as Mrs. Baxter
The Dancing Masters
as Louise Harlan
After Office Hours
as Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
Arbor Day
as Woman Outside (uncredited)
Seven Days Ashore
as Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
Enemies of Women
as French Beauty
Song and Dance Man
as Mrs. Whitney
A Tale of Two Cities
as Aristocrat (uncredited)
Three for Bedroom C
as Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
Sing Your Worries Away
as Flo Faulkner - Landlady
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Georgianna Fitzdingle
Around the World with Nellie Bly
as Dowager #1
Susie Steps Out
as Mrs. Starr
Gypsy Sweetheart
as Mrs. Van Updyke
Here, Prince
as The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)