Margaret Dumont
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1882-10-19 (83 years old)
Deathday
1965-03-06
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known As
Daisy Juliette Baker
Маргарет Дюмон
Margaret Dumont
Biography
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 comedia...
Acting
1933
as Gloria Teasdale
1929
as Mrs. Potter
1939
as Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
1937
as Emily Upjohn
1941
as Martha Phelps
1979
as (archive footage)
1930
as Mrs. Rittenhouse
1941
as Mrs. Hemogloben
1946
as Mrs. Hendrickson
1944
as Mrs. Allenwood
1935
as Mrs. Claypool
1945
as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
1943
as Louise Harlan
1952
as Mrs. Whitelaw
1982
as (archive footage)
1935
as Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
1945
as Mrs. Standish
1972
as Self (archive footage)
1942
as Mrs. Culpepper
1944
as Mrs. Willoughby
1937
as Mrs. Bell-Rivington
1936
as Mrs. Wentworth
1938
as Pantomime Teacher
1952
as Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
1937
as Mrs. Abernathy
1934
as Mrs. Fields
1935
as Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
1934
as Sybilla Crum
1942
as Flo Faulkner - Landlady
1937
as Martha Arlington
1944
as Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
1937
as Mrs. Penner
1942
as Mrs. E. V. Lawson
1964
as Mrs. Foster
1933
as Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
1962
as Persephone Updike
1956
as Georgianna Fitzdingle
1933
as Self
1935
as Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
1936
as Mrs. Whitney
1934
as Mrs. Baxter
1942
as Ophelia MacDougal
1932
as The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
1999
as Self (archiveFootage)
1934
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1935
as Mrs. Van Updyke
1945
as Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
1942
as Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
1975
as Self (archive footage)
1917
as Aristocrat (uncredited)
1976
as (archive footage)
1941
as Mrs. Franklin Evans
1958
as Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
1931
as Blanche Ledyard
1936
as Woman Outside (uncredited)
1923
as French Beauty
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