Margaret Dumont

Acting

Margaret Dumont

Born 1882-10-19 Brooklyn, New York, USA 57 films

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 i…

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Filmography

57 films
Susie Steps Out poster

After her father loses his job because of illness, adolescent Susie Russell poses as older than she…

Susie Steps Out

★ 10.0 1946

Little Giant poster

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cr…

Little Giant

★ 5.3 1946

Bathing Beauty poster

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal…

Bathing Beauty

★ 5.9 1944

Up in Arms poster

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-…

Up in Arms

★ 5.7 1944

Rhythm Parade poster

A showgirl trying to advance her career must hide the fact she is caring for a baby. With N.T.G. an…

Rhythm Parade

★ 9.0 1942