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Margaret Dumont is a Actor American born on 19 october 1882 at New York City (USA)

Margaret Dumont

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Birth name Daisy Juliette Baker
Nationality USA
Birth 19 october 1882 at New York City (USA)
Death 6 march 1965 (at 82 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. She is remembered mostly for being the comic foil to Groucho Marx in seven of the Marx Brothers films. Groucho called her "practically the fifth Marx brother."

Biography

Née Daisy Juliette Baker à Brooklyn, New York, elle adopte le nom de scène de Marguerit ou Margaret Dumond. Elle joue dans sept des films des Marx Brothers, le rôle de la riche veuve alternativement courtisée ou insultée par le personnage de Groucho Marx. Elle a parfois été considérée comme la cinquième Marx Brothers.

Elle joue en tout dans 57 films, y compris certains films muets, à commencer par A tale of Two cities, en 1917. Son premier rôle majeur lui est proposé dans Noix de coco, en 1929. Son dernier film est What a Way to go!, en 1964, dans lequel elle joue Mrs. Foster.

Elle meurt d'une crise cardiaque à Hollywood, le 6 mars 1965.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(10 films)
Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx
(9 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(9 films)
Chico Marx
Chico Marx
(9 films)
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Margaret Dumont (47 films)

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Actress

What a Way to Go!, 1h51
Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Black comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Robert Cummings
Roles Mrs. Foster
Rating68% 3.448643.448643.448643.448643.44864
In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine), dressed as a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase in a pink mansion. As she reaches the bottom, she is followed by pall-bearers carrying a pink coffin. As they round the bend in the staircase, the pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs, leading into the opening titles.
Zotz!
Zotz! (1962)
, 1h27
Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Spy, Horror
Themes Spy films, Films about magic and magicians
Actors Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki
Roles Persephone Updike
Rating59% 2.950022.950022.950022.950022.95002
A brilliant but peculiar professor of Ancient Eastern languages, Jonathan Jones, finds that an amulet sent to his niece Cynthia by a boyfriend from an archeological dig has magical powers.
Auntie Mame, 2h23
Directed by Don Alvarado, Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes
Roles Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.945443.945443.945443.945443.94544
Patrick Dennis (Jan Handzlik), orphaned in 1928 when his father unexpectedly dies, is placed in the care of Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), his father's sister in Manhattan. Mame is a flamboyant, exuberant woman, who hosts frequent parties with eclectic, bohemian guests. Patrick is quickly introduced to his aunt's free-spirited and eccentric lifestyle, including Vera Charles (Coral Browne), a Broadway actress, who spends many of her nights passed out drunk in Mame's guest room. Mame's frequently repeated motto is "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Three for Bedroom C, 1h14
Directed by Milton H. Bren
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gloria Swanson, Fred Clark, Hans Conried, Margaret Dumont, Steve Brodie, Dick Elliott
Roles Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
Rating58% 2.90692.90692.90692.90692.9069
Ann Haven (Swanson), an aging movie actress, receives an urgent wire demanding that she immediately return to Hollywood to star in a new film.
Stop, You're Killing Me, 1h26
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Mafia films, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Gangster films
Actors Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Sheldon Leonard, Virginia Gibson, Harry Morgan, Margaret Dumont
Roles Mrs. Whitelaw
Rating61% 3.0978153.0978153.0978153.0978153.097815
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society.
Susie Steps Out, 1h5
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Actors David Bruce, Howard Freeman, Grady Sutton, Margaret Dumont, Emmett Vogan, Syd Saylor
Roles Mrs. Starr
Rating56% 2.8096552.8096552.8096552.8096552.809655
This script must be run from the command line
Little Giant, 1h31
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, George Cleveland, Margaret Dumont, Jacqueline deWit
Roles Mrs. Hendrickson
Rating66% 3.3406653.3406653.3406653.3406653.340665
A naive country boy named Benny Miller (Lou Costello), from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother (Mary Gordon) and his girlfriend Martha (Elena Verdugo) to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence (George Cleveland), a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. When he arrives to ask for a job, the sales manager, John Morrison (Bud Abbott), mistakes him for one of the auditioning fashion models and has him remove his clothing. Morrison's secret wife, Hazel Temple (Jacqueline deWit), discovers the mistake and suggests that Benny be hired to avoid an accounting scandal, as they have been "cooking the books". Unfortunately, Benny is fired from his salesman post after only one day. Clarence transfers Benny to the company's Stockton branch, which is run by Morrison's cousin, Tom Chandler (also played by Bud Abbott).
Diamond Horseshoe, 1h44
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, William Gaxton, Beatrice Kay, Phil Silvers, Margaret Dumont
Roles Mrs. Standish
Rating64% 3.242153.242153.242153.242153.24215
Joe Davis Sr. performs in a big nightclub called Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. He is visited by his son Joe Jr. who is a medical student. Joe Jr. tells his father that he wants to be in show business, much to his father's disapproval. Nevertheless, Joe Sr. gives his son a job at his club where Joe Jr. then becomes smitten with Bonnie Collins; the club's headlining act. Joe Sr. is spending too much time worrying about his son that he starts to neglect his own girlfriend Claire. Claire promises to give Bonnie a mink coat if she pretends to like and go out with Joe Jr., so that Joe Sr. will pay more attention to her. Things take a complicated turn when Bonnie actually does fall in love with Joe Jr. and they get married, again much to his father's disapproval.
The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1h20
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee
Roles Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Rating65% 3.294163.294163.294163.294163.29416
Athanael (Jack Benny), the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a late night radio show sponsored by Paradise Coffee (motto: "It's Heavenly"), falls asleep listening to the announcer, who is doing his best to prove it is "the coffee that makes you sleep." Athanael dreams he is an angel (junior grade) and a trumpeter in the orchestra of Heaven. Due to the praise of his girlfriend Elizabeth (Alexis Smith), the assistant of the deputy chief of the department of small planet management (Guy Kibbee), he is given the mission of destroying planet 339001 (Earth) and its troublesome inhabitants by blowing the "Last Trumpet" at exactly midnight, signaling the end of the world.
Bathing Beauty, 1h41
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Jean Porter, Nana Bryant
Roles Mrs. Allenwood
Rating63% 3.194683.194683.194683.194683.19468
In Los Angeles, popular songwriter Steve Elliott (Red Skelton) prepares to marry Caroline Brooks (Esther Williams), who has pledged to give up her job as a college swimming instructor once she has wed. Likewise, Steve plans to quit his songwriting career, even though New York producer George Adams (Basil Rathbone) has already hired him to write new songs for a water ballet show.
Up in Arms
Up in Arms (1944)
, 1h46
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Knox Manning, Constance Dowling, Dorothy Patrick
Roles Mrs. Willoughby
Rating61% 3.098793.098793.098793.098793.09879
Film musical, relatant les péripéties vécues par un garçon d'ascenseur un tantinet hypocondriaque, réussissant à obtenir un poste dans un hôpital espérant des consultations médicales plus faciles de cette façon et qui sympathise avec de charmantes infirmières. Las, la guerre avec les japonais le rattrape et il se retrouve propulsé dans le pacifique où il finit plus ou moins héroïquement, à la mode hollywoodienne de l'époque.