Margaret Dumont
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.695 |
| Birthday | 1882-10-19 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Daisy Juliette Baker, Маргарет Дюмон, |
1933
Duck Soup
7.32/745
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Duck Soup
1929
The Cocoanuts
6.468/108
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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The Cocoanuts
1937
A Day at the Races
7.068/191
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a hi...
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A Day at the Races
1941
The Big Store
6.3/64
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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The Big Store
1941
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
6.823/31
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1930
Animal Crackers
6.913/224
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of in...
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Animal Crackers
1946
Little Giant
5.3/18
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thum...
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Little Giant
1944
Bathing Beauty
5.7/28
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her student...
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Bathing Beauty
1935
A Night at the Opera
7.4/467
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...
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A Night at the Opera
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.8/18
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
1943
The Dancing Masters
5.9/25
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor...
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The Dancing Masters
1952
Stop, You're Killing Me
0/0
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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Stop, You're Killing Me
1982
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
0/0
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this...
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1945
Diamond Horseshoe
4/1
Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes bet...
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Diamond Horseshoe
1942
About Face
5/1
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
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About Face
1944
Up in Arms
5.9/7
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Up in Arms
1937
Wise Girl
7/6
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them...
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Wise Girl
1936
Anything Goes
5.4/8
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he...
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Anything Goes
1938
Dramatic School
6.25/4
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at nigh...
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Dramatic School
1937
Youth on Parole
2.7/3
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thiev...
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Youth on Parole
1952
Three for Bedroom C
0/0
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome...
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Three for Bedroom C
1934
Gridiron Flash
3.3/3
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
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Gridiron Flash
1935
Reckless
5.3/12
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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Reckless
1937
High Flyers
7/3
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamond...
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High Flyers
1942
Sing Your Worries Away
5.5/2
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie...
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Sing Your Worries Away
1944
Seven Days Ashore
4.5/3
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
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Seven Days Ashore
1934
Fifteen Wives
1/1
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes in...
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Fifteen Wives
1937
The Life of the Party
5.2/4
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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The Life of the Party
1942
Born to Sing
5/4
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Born to Sing
1933
Storm at Daybreak
5.8/4
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza...
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Storm at Daybreak
1956
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
4.8/4
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.
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Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1962
Zotz!
5.5/12
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three power...
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Zotz!
1935
After Office Hours
6.3/12
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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After Office Hours
1936
Song and Dance Man
0/0
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Song and Dance Man
1934
Kentucky Kernels
5.9/7
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and e...
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Kentucky Kernels
1939
At the Circus
6.276/85
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...
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At the Circus
1942
Rhythm Parade
0/0
A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.
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Rhythm Parade
1932
Here, Prince
0/0
Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.
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Here, Prince
1934
We're Rich Again
4/2
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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We're Rich Again
1935
Gypsy Sweetheart
1/1
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brin...
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Gypsy Sweetheart
1945
Sunset in El Dorado
4.2/3
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures in...
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Sunset in El Dorado
1942
Tales of Manhattan
6.2/30
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea...
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Tales of Manhattan
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1917
A Tale of Two Cities
4.8/6
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and con...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.779/34
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1941
For Beauty's Sake
0/0
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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For Beauty's Sake
1958
Auntie Mame
6.965/101
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues w...
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Auntie Mame
1931
The Girl Habit
0/0
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
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The Girl Habit
1979
The Hollywood Clowns
0/0
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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The Hollywood Clowns
1964
What a Way to Go!
6.91/78
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be...
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What a Way to Go!
1933
Wonderland of California
0/0
Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Brothers film set.
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Wonderland of California
1935
Rendezvous
4.8/7
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Rendezvous
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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