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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Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Cart...
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Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...
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Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | What a Way to Go! (1964) | Mrs. Foster | 7 | |
| 2 | Auntie Mame (1958) | Noblewoman in Play (uncredited) | - | - |
| 3 | Little Giant (1946) | Mrs. Hendrickson | - | - |
| 4 | Up in Arms (1944) | Mrs. Willoughby | 7 | |
| 5 | Tales of Manhattan (1942) | Mme. Langehanke (uncredited) | - | - |
| 6 | Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) | Mrs. Hemogloben | 6 | |
| 7 | At the Circus (1939) | Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury | 6 | |
| 8 | A Day at the Races (1937) | Emily Upjohn | 6 | |
| 9 | Anything Goes (1936) | Mrs. Wentworth | - | - |
| 10 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | Mrs. Claypool | 7.3 | |
| 11 | Reckless (1935) | Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited) | - | - |
| 12 | Duck Soup (1933) | Gloria Teasdale | 7.2 | |
| 13 | Animal Crackers (1930) | Mrs. Rittenhouse | 7.5 | |
| 14 | The Cocoanuts (1929) | Mrs. Potter | 6.5 |

