Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Acting 1882-10-19 Brooklyn, New York, USA

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).

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1982 (archive footage)
1979 (archive footage)
1976 (archive footage)
1975 Self (archive footage)
1972 Self (archive footage)
1964 Mrs. Foster
1962 Persephone Updike
1958 Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
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1956 Georgianna Fitzdingle
1952 Mrs. Whitelaw
1952 Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
1946 Mrs. Hendrickson
1945 Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
1945 Mrs. Standish
1945 Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
1944 Mrs. Allenwood
1944 Mrs. Willoughby
1944 Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
1943 Louise Harlan
1942 Mrs. Culpepper
1942 Flo Faulkner - Landlady
1942 Mrs. E. V. Lawson
1942 Ophelia MacDougal
1942 Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
1941 Martha Phelps
1941 Mrs. Hemogloben
1941 Mrs. Franklin Evans
1939 Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
1938 Pantomime Teacher
1937 Emily Upjohn
1937 Mrs. Bell-Rivington
1937 Mrs. Abernathy
1937 Martha Arlington
1937 Mrs. Penner
1936 Mrs. Wentworth
1936 Mrs. Whitney
1936 Woman Outside (uncredited)
1935 Mrs. Claypool
1935 Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
1935 Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
1935 Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
1935 Mrs. Van Updyke
1934 Mrs. Fields
1934 Sybilla Crum
1934 Mrs. Baxter
1933 Gloria Teasdale
1933 Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
1932 The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
1931 Blanche Ledyard
1930 Mrs. Rittenhouse
1929 Mrs. Potter
1923 French Beauty
1917 Aristocrat (uncredited)