Margaret Dumont
Age: 82 | From: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1882-10-20 03:46:51
Death: 1965-03-06 03:46:51
Aliases: Daisy Juliette Baker , Маргарет Дюмон
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 14
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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 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).
Most Famous Work
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976) (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(1975) Self (archive footage)
After Office Hours
(1935) Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
Born to Sing
(1942) Mrs. E. V. Lawson
Dramatic School
(1938) Pantomime Teacher
Youth on Parole
(1937) Mrs. Abernathy
Sunset in El Dorado
(1945) Aunt Dolly / Aunt ArabellaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1956 | Georgianna Fitzdingle | |
| Self | ||
| 1952 | Mrs. Whitelaw | |
| Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| 1950 | Self | |
| 1946 | Mrs. Hendrickson | |
| 1945 | Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella | |
| Mrs. Standish | ||
| Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder | ||
| 1944 | Mrs. Allenwood | |
| Mrs. Croxton-Lynch | ||
| Mrs. Willoughby | ||
| 1943 | Louise Harlan | |
| 1942 | Ophelia MacDougal | |
| Mme. Langehanke (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Culpepper | ||
| Flo Faulkner - Landlady | ||
| Mrs. E. V. Lawson | ||
| 1941 | Mrs. Hemogloben | |
| Martha Phelps | ||
| Mrs. Franklin Evans | ||
| 1939 | Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury | |
| 1938 | Pantomime Teacher | |
| 1937 | Mrs. Bell-Rivington | |
| Martha Arlington | ||
| Mrs. Abernathy | ||
| Mrs. Penner | ||
| Emily Upjohn | ||
| 1936 | Mrs. Whitney | |
| Mrs. Wentworth | ||
| 1935 | Mrs. Claypool | |
| Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited) | ||
| Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Van Updyke | ||
| Mrs. Murchison (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | Mrs. Baxter | |
| Mrs. Fields | ||
| Sybilla Crum | ||
| Wedding Guest (uncredited) | ||
| 1933 | Gloria Teasdale | |
| Duchess Sophie (uncredited) | ||
| Self | ||
| 1932 | The Queen of Deleria (uncredited) | |
| 1931 | Blanche Ledyard | |
| 1930 | Mrs. Rittenhouse | |
| 1929 | Mrs. Potter | |
| 1917 | Aristocrat (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
