Acting credits
58
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Margaret Dumont
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 54Series: 4
TMDB ID: 10804
IMDb ID: nm0241669
Known for: Acting
Born: October 19, 1882
Died: March 6, 1965
Age: 82
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1917 - 1999
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q254571
Also known as
Daisy Juliette Baker • Маргарет Дюмон
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Margaret Dumont.
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
1999 Movie
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
as (archive footage)
1982 Movie
The Hollywood Clowns
as (archive footage)
1979 Movie
6.9
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976 Movie
6.1
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975 Movie
6.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972 Movie
7.1
What a Way to Go!
as Mrs. Foster
1964 Movie
5.6
Zotz!
as Persephone Updike
1962 Movie
Around the World with Nellie Bly
as Dowager #1
1960 Movie
7.0
Auntie Mame
as Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
1958 Movie
4.6
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Georgianna Fitzdingle
1956 Movie
5.0
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Mrs. Whitelaw
1952 Movie
Three for Bedroom C
as Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
1952 Movie
5.1
Little Giant
as Mrs. Hendrickson
1946 Movie
4.2
Sunset in El Dorado
as Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
1945 Movie
4.0
Diamond Horseshoe
as Mrs. Standish
1945 Movie
5.7
The Horn Blows at Midnight
as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
1945 Movie
5.7
Bathing Beauty
as Mrs. Allenwood
1944 Movie
2.8
Seven Days Ashore
as Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
1944 Movie
5.6
Up in Arms
as Mrs. Willoughby
1944 Movie
6.2
The Dancing Masters
as Louise Harlan
1943 Movie
Rhythm Parade
as Ophelia MacDougal
1942 Movie
6.3
Tales of Manhattan
as Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
1942 Movie
6.0
About Face
as Mrs. Culpepper
1942 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Margaret Dumont.
