Margaret Dumont

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).

  • Title: Margaret Dumont
  • Popularity: 1.294
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1882-10-19
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Daisy Juliette Baker, Маргарет Дюмон
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Margaret Dumont Movies

  • 1933
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    Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    7.303 1933 HD

    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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  • 1929
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    The Cocoanuts

    The Cocoanuts

    6.5 1929 HD

    During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

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  • 1939
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    At the Circus

    At the Circus

    6.313 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    A Day at the Races

    A Day at the Races

    7.084 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    The Big Store

    The Big Store

    6.2 1941 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    The Hollywood Clowns

    The Hollywood Clowns

    1 1979 HD

    Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

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  • 1930
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    Animal Crackers

    Animal Crackers

    6.89 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

    Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

    6.712 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Little Giant

    Little Giant

    5.3 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Bathing Beauty

    Bathing Beauty

    5.8 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    A Night at the Opera

    A Night at the Opera

    7.4 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    The Horn Blows at Midnight

    The Horn Blows at Midnight

    5.8 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    The Dancing Masters

    The Dancing Masters

    6 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Stop, You're Killing Me

    Stop, You're Killing Me

    5 1952 HD

    With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

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  • 1982
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    The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

    The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

    1 1982 HD

    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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  • 1935
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    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    4.8 1935 HD

    A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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  • 1945
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    Diamond Horseshoe

    Diamond Horseshoe

    4 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    About Face

    About Face

    5 1942 HD

    Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

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  • 1944
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    Up in Arms

    Up in Arms

    5.9 1944 HD

    Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

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  • 1937
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    Wise Girl

    Wise Girl

    7 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Anything Goes

    Anything Goes

    5.4 1936 HD

    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,...

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  • 1938
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    Dramatic School

    Dramatic School

    6.2 1938 HD

    Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at...

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  • 1952
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    Three for Bedroom C

    Three for Bedroom C

    1 1952 HD

    After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a...

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  • 1937
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    Youth on Parole

    Youth on Parole

    3.25 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    Gridiron Flash

    Gridiron Flash

    3.3 1934 HD

    A college football team recruits a tough convict.

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  • 1935
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    Reckless

    Reckless

    5.3 1935 HD

    A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

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  • 1934
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    Fifteen Wives

    Fifteen Wives

    1 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Sing Your Worries Away

    Sing Your Worries Away

    5.5 1942 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    High Flyers

    High Flyers

    7 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Seven Days Ashore

    Seven Days Ashore

    4.5 1944 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    The Life of the Party

    The Life of the Party

    5.2 1937 HD

    A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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  • 1942
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    Born to Sing

    Born to Sing

    5 1942 HD

    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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  • 1964
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    What a Way to Go!

    What a Way to Go!

    7 1964 HD

    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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  • 1933
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    Storm at Daybreak

    Storm at Daybreak

    5.8 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Zotz!

    Zotz!

    5.6 1962 HD

    Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three...

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  • 1956
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    Shake, Rattle and Rock!

    Shake, Rattle and Rock!

    4.6 1956 HD

    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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  • 1933
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    Wonderland of California

    Wonderland of California

    1 1933 HD

    Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Brothers film set. Preserved by the Academy Film...

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  • 1935
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    After Office Hours

    After Office Hours

    6.4 1935 HD

    A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.

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  • 1936
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    Song and Dance Man

    Song and Dance Man

    1 1936 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    Kentucky Kernels

    Kentucky Kernels

    6.125 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Rhythm Parade

    Rhythm Parade

    1 1942 HD

    A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.

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  • 1932
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    Here, Prince

    Here, Prince

    1 1932 HD

    Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.

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  • 2002
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    Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

    Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

    1 2002 HD

    Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.

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  • 1934
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    We're Rich Again

    We're Rich Again

    4 1934 HD

    A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

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  • 1935
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    Gypsy Sweetheart

    Gypsy Sweetheart

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Sunset in El Dorado

    Sunset in El Dorado

    4.2 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Tales of Manhattan

    Tales of Manhattan

    6.2 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    5.7 1975 HD

    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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  • 1917
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    4.8 1917 HD

    At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and...

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  • 1976
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    That's Entertainment, Part II

    That's Entertainment, Part II

    6.8 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    For Beauty's Sake

    For Beauty's Sake

    1 1941 HD

    A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

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  • 1958
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    Auntie Mame

    Auntie Mame

    6.977 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    The Girl Habit

    The Girl Habit

    1 1931 HD

    A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.

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  • 1936
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    Arbor Day

    Arbor Day

    6 1936 HD

    Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1958
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    The Donna Reed Show

    The Donna Reed Show

    6.3 1958 HD

    Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time...

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  • 1956
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    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    5.3 1956 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    Racket Squad

    Racket Squad

    6 1951 HD

    Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco,...

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