
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).

A Night at the Opera

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What a Way to Go!

Wise Girl

High Flyers

Auntie Mame

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That's Entertainment, Part II

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Cocoanuts

The Donna Reed Show

Dramatic School

At the Circus

After Office Hours

Kentucky Kernels

Tales of Manhattan

The Dancing Masters

The Big Store

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

About Face

Arbor Day

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Racket Squad

Bathing Beauty

Storm at Daybreak

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Up in Arms

Sing Your Worries Away

Zotz!

Anything Goes

The Life of the Party

Enemies of Women

Sunset in El Dorado

Little Giant

Stop, You're Killing Me

Reckless

Born to Sing

A Tale of Two Cities

Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Rendezvous

Diamond Horseshoe

Gridiron Flash

Youth on Parole

Seven Days Ashore

Fifteen Wives

The Hollywood Clowns

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Three for Bedroom C

Wonderland of California

Song and Dance Man

Rhythm Parade

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

For Beauty's Sake

The Girl Habit

Around the World with Nellie Bly

Susie Steps Out