Margaret Dumont
- Recitazione
- 19 ottobre 1882 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 6 marzo 1965
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- 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)
- Hollywood Hollywood · (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? · In persona
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory · In persona
- La signora e i suoi mariti · Mrs. Foster
- Zotz! · Persephone Updike
- Around the World with Nellie Bly · Dowager #1
- La signora mia zia · Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
- The Donna Reed Show
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! · Georgianna Fitzdingle
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · In persona
- 4 morti irrequieti · Mrs. Whitelaw
- Three for Bedroom C · Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
- Racket Squad
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · In persona
- Susie Steps Out · Mrs. Starr
- Il piccolo gigante · Mrs. Hendrickson
- Sunset in El Dorado · Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
- Il cavallino d'oro · Mrs. Standish
- La tromba squilla a mezzanotte · Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
- Bellezze al bagno · Mrs. Allenwood
- Seven Days Ashore · Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
- Così vinsi la guerra · Mrs. Willoughby
- Maestri di ballo · Louise Harlan
- Rhythm Parade · Ophelia MacDougal
- Destino · Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
- About Face · Mrs. Culpepper
- Sing Your Worries Away · Flo Faulkner - Landlady
- Born to Sing · Mrs. E. V. Lawson
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break · Mrs. Hemogloben
- Il Bazar delle follie · Martha Phelps
- For Beauty's Sake · Mrs. Franklin Evans
- Tre pazzi a zonzo · 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
- Un giorno alle corse · Emily Upjohn
- Arbor Day · Woman Outside (uncredited)
- Song and Dance Man · Mrs. Whitney
- Anything Goes · Mrs. Wentworth
- Una notte all'opera · Mrs. Claypool
- Rendezvous · Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
- Tentazione bionda · Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
- Gypsy Sweetheart · Mrs. Van Updyke
- Lo scandalo del giorno · Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
- Kentucky Kernels · Mrs. Baxter
- Gridiron Flash · Mrs. Fields
- Fifteen Wives · Sybilla Crum
- La guerra lampo dei fratelli Marx · Gloria Teasdale
- Storm at Daybreak · Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
- Wonderland of California · In persona
- Here, Prince · The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
- The Girl Habit · Blanche Ledyard
- Animal Crackers · Mrs. Rittenhouse
- Noci di cocco · Mrs. Potter
- I nemici delle donne · French Beauty
- A Tale of Two Cities · Aristocrat (uncredited)