
Margaret Dumont
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 (1…
Known For
Duck Soup
Gloria Teasdale
A Night at the Opera
Mrs. Claypool
A Day at the Races
Emily Upjohn
Animal Crackers
Mrs. Rittenhouse
Auntie Mame
Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
What a Way to Go!
Mrs. Foster
The Cocoanuts
Mrs. Potter
At the Circus
Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
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Filmography
Acting (61)
Movies (57)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999as (archive footage)
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982as (archive footage)
The Hollywood Clowns
1979as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972as Self (archive footage)
What a Way to Go!
1964as Mrs. Foster
Zotz!
1962as Persephone Updike
Around the World with Nellie Bly
1960as Dowager #1
Auntie Mame
1958as Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1956as Georgianna Fitzdingle
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952as Mrs. Whitelaw
Three for Bedroom C
1952as Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
Little Giant
1946as Mrs. Hendrickson
Susie Steps Out
1946as Mrs. Starr
Sunset in El Dorado
1945as Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
Diamond Horseshoe
1945as Mrs. Standish
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Bathing Beauty
1944as Mrs. Allenwood
Up in Arms
1944as Mrs. Willoughby
Seven Days Ashore
1944as Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
The Dancing Masters
1943as Louise Harlan
About Face
1942as Mrs. Culpepper
Tales of Manhattan
1942as Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
Rhythm Parade
1942as Ophelia MacDougal
Sing Your Worries Away
1942as Flo Faulkner - Landlady
Born to Sing
1942as Mrs. E. V. Lawson
The Big Store
1941as Martha Phelps
For Beauty's Sake
1941as Mrs. Franklin Evans
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1941as Mrs. Hemogloben
At the Circus
1939as Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
Dramatic School
1938as Pantomime Teacher
A Day at the Races
1937as Emily Upjohn
Youth on Parole
1937as Mrs. Abernathy
Wise Girl
1937as Mrs. Bell-Rivington
The Life of the Party
1937as Mrs. Penner
High Flyers
1937as Martha Arlington
Anything Goes
1936as Mrs. Wentworth
Song and Dance Man
1936as Mrs. Whitney
Arbor Day
1936as Woman Outside (uncredited)
A Night at the Opera
1935as Mrs. Claypool
Rendezvous
1935as Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
Reckless
1935as Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
Gypsy Sweetheart
1935as Mrs. Van Updyke
After Office Hours
1935as Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
Fifteen Wives
1934as Sybilla Crum
Gridiron Flash
1934as Mrs. Fields
Kentucky Kernels
1934as Mrs. Baxter
Storm at Daybreak
1933as Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Duck Soup
1933as Gloria Teasdale
Wonderland of California
1933as Self
Here, Prince
1932as The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
The Girl Habit
1931as Blanche Ledyard
Animal Crackers
1930as Mrs. Rittenhouse
The Cocoanuts
1929as Mrs. Potter
Enemies of Women
1923as French Beauty
A Tale of Two Cities
1917as Aristocrat (uncredited)
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