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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 19, 1882
Died
March 6, 1965
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Daisy Juliette Baker
- Маргарет Дюмон
Margaret Dumont
0.3 Popularity
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).
Known For
0.0
(archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
0.0
(archive footage)
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
0.0
(archive footage)
The Hollywood Clowns
1979
6.9
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.1
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
7.1
Mrs. Foster
What a Way to Go!
1964
5.6
Persephone Updike
Zotz!
1962
0.0
Dowager #1
Around the World with Nellie Bly
1960
7.0
Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
Auntie Mame
1958
Credits
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
1999
0.0
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
as (archive footage)
1982
0.0
The Hollywood Clowns
as (archive footage)
1979
0.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
What a Way to Go!
as Mrs. Foster
1964
7.1
Zotz!
as Persephone Updike
1962
5.6
Around the World with Nellie Bly
as Dowager #1
1960
0.0
Auntie Mame
as Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
1958
7.0
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Georgianna Fitzdingle
1956
4.6
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Mrs. Whitelaw
1952
5.0
Three for Bedroom C
as Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
1952
0.0
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Little Giant
as Mrs. Hendrickson
1946
5.1
Sunset in El Dorado
as Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
1945
4.2
Diamond Horseshoe
as Mrs. Standish
1945
4.0
The Horn Blows at Midnight
as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
1945
5.7
Bathing Beauty
as Mrs. Allenwood
1944
5.7
Seven Days Ashore
as Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
1944
2.8
Up in Arms
as Mrs. Willoughby
1944
5.6
The Dancing Masters
as Louise Harlan
1943
6.2
Rhythm Parade
as Ophelia MacDougal
1942
0.0
Tales of Manhattan
as Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
1942
6.2
About Face
as Mrs. Culpepper
1942
6.0
Sing Your Worries Away
as Flo Faulkner - Landlady
1942
5.5
Born to Sing
as Mrs. E. V. Lawson
1942
5.0
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
as Mrs. Hemogloben
1941
6.9
The Big Store
as Martha Phelps
1941
6.2
For Beauty's Sake
as Mrs. Franklin Evans
1941
0.0
At the Circus
as Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
1939
6.4
Dramatic School
as Pantomime Teacher
1938
6.2
Wise Girl
as Mrs. Bell-Rivington
1937
7.0
High Flyers
as Martha Arlington
1937
7.0
Youth on Parole
as Mrs. Abernathy
1937
2.8
The Life of the Party
as Mrs. Penner
1937
5.2
A Day at the Races
as Emily Upjohn
1937
7.1
Arbor Day
as Woman Outside (uncredited)
1936
6.0
Song and Dance Man
as Mrs. Whitney
1936
0.0
Anything Goes
as Mrs. Wentworth
1936
5.3
A Night at the Opera
as Mrs. Claypool
1935
7.4
Rendezvous
as Mrs. Hendricks (uncredited)
1935
4.3
Reckless
as Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
1935
5.0
🎬
Gypsy Sweetheart
as Mrs. Van Updyke
1935
1.0
After Office Hours
as Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
1935
6.4
Kentucky Kernels
as Mrs. Baxter
1934
6.3
Gridiron Flash
as Mrs. Fields
1934
3.3
Fifteen Wives
as Sybilla Crum
1934
1.0
Duck Soup
as Gloria Teasdale
1933
7.3
Storm at Daybreak
as Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
1933
5.8
Wonderland of California
as Self
1933
0.0
🎬
Here, Prince
as The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
1932
0.0
The Girl Habit
as Blanche Ledyard
1931
0.0
Animal Crackers
as Mrs. Rittenhouse
1930
6.9
The Cocoanuts
as Mrs. Potter
1929
6.5
Enemies of Women
as French Beauty
1923
5.2
A Tale of Two Cities
as Aristocrat (uncredited)
1917
4.8