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...
Also Known As
Daisy Juliette Baker, Маргарет Дюмон
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Margaret Dumont's Movies
Duck Soup
12 Nov 1933
A Night at the Opera
15 Nov 1935
Animal Crackers
08 Aug 1930
A Day at the Races
11 Jun 1937
Auntie Mame
04 Dec 1958
The Cocoanuts
23 May 1929
What a Way to Go!
02 Jul 1964
At the Circus
20 Oct 1939
The Big Store
20 Jun 1941
That's Entertainment, Part II
16 May 1976
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
10 Oct 1941
Tales of Manhattan
05 Aug 1942
Bathing Beauty
27 Jun 1944
The Dancing Masters
19 Nov 1943
Little Giant
22 Feb 1946
The Horn Blows at Midnight
28 Apr 1945
Zotz!
03 Oct 1962
Reckless
19 Apr 1935
After Office Hours
22 Feb 1935
Rendezvous
25 Oct 1935
