Margaret Dumont
- Schauspiel
- 19. Oktober 1882 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 6. März 1965
Biografie
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).
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults · (archive footage)
- The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell · (archive footage)
- The Hollywood Clowns · (archive footage)
- Das gibt’s nie wieder II · (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? · Selbst
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory · Selbst
- Immer mit einem anderen · Mrs. Foster
- Zotz! · Persephone Updike
- Around the World with Nellie Bly · Dowager #1
- Die tolle Tante · Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
- Mutter ist die allerbeste
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! · Georgianna Fitzdingle
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · Selbst
- Stop, You're Killing Me · Mrs. Whitelaw
- Three for Bedroom C · Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
- Racket Squad
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · Selbst
- Susie Steps Out · Mrs. Starr
- Little Giant · Mrs. Hendrickson
- Sunset in El Dorado · Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
- Diamond Horseshoe · Mrs. Standish
- Der Engel mit der Trompete · Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
- Badende Venus · Mrs. Allenwood
- Seven Days Ashore · Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
- Up in Arms · Mrs. Willoughby
- Dick und Doof: Die Tanzmeister · Louise Harlan
- Rhythm Parade · Ophelia MacDougal
- Sechs Schicksale · Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
- About Face · Mrs. Culpepper
- Sing Your Worries Away · Flo Faulkner - Landlady
- Born to Sing · Mrs. E. V. Lawson
- Gib einem Trottel keine Chance · Mrs. Hemogloben
- Die Marx Brothers im Kaufhaus · Martha Phelps
- For Beauty's Sake · Mrs. Franklin Evans
- Die Marx Brothers im Zirkus · Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
- Dramatic School · Pantomime Teacher
- Wise Girl · Mrs. Bell-Rivington
- High Flyers · Martha Arlington
- Youth on Parole · Mrs. Abernathy
- The Life of the Party · Mrs. Penner
- Marx Brothers - Das große Rennen · Emily Upjohn
- Kleine Leute, ganz groß · Woman Outside (uncredited)
- Song and Dance Man · Mrs. Whitney
- Anything Goes · Mrs. Wentworth
- Die Marx Brothers in der Oper · Mrs. Claypool
- Spione küßt man nicht · Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
- Die öffentliche Meinung · Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
- Gypsy Sweetheart · Mrs. Van Updyke
- Nach Büroschluß · Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
- Kentucky Kernels · Mrs. Baxter
- Gridiron Flash · Mrs. Fields
- Fifteen Wives · Sybilla Crum
- Die Marx Brothers im Krieg · Gloria Teasdale
- Storm at Daybreak · Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
- Wonderland of California · Selbst
- Here, Prince · The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
- The Girl Habit · Blanche Ledyard
- Animal Crackers · Mrs. Rittenhouse
- The Cocoanuts · Mrs. Potter
- Frauenfeinde · French Beauty
- A Tale of Two Cities · Aristocrat (uncredited)