Margaret Dumont

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Birth Name: Daisy Juliette Baker

Born: 20 October 1882 Died: 6 March 1965

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 9"

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Women of Classic Cinema _1935-1939 (63 items)
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Description: Margaret Dumont would not 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). It is a popular myth that she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on); restored footage of Groucho's "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" shows her laughing at his ad libs. 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 ... (more)