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Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films. Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother".
Birth Name
Daisy Juliette Baker
Born
Friday, 20 October 1882
Died
Saturday, 06 March 1965
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Inside the Marx Brothers | Mrs. Rittenhouse (clip from Animal Crackers (1930)) | 2003 |
| The Unknown Marx Brothers | Various Roles | 1993 |
| Classic Comedy Teams | Mrs. Claypool / Mrs. Dukesbury / Martha Phelps (segment "Marx Brothers") | 1986 |
| The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell | Herself / (archive footage) | 1982 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Clips from 'A Night at the Opera' & 'A Day at the Races' / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| What a Way to Go! | Mrs. Foster | 1964 |
| The Hollywood Palace | Self | 1964 |
| Zotz! | Persephone Updike | 1962 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Inside the Marx Brothers | Mrs. Rittenhouse (clip from Animal Crackers (1930)) | 2003 |
| The Unknown Marx Brothers | Various Roles | 1993 |
| Classic Comedy Teams | Mrs. Claypool / Mrs. Dukesbury / Martha Phelps (segment "Marx Brothers") | 1986 |
| The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell | Herself / (archive footage) | 1982 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Clips from 'A Night at the Opera' & 'A Day at the Races' / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| What a Way to Go! | Mrs. Foster | 1964 |
| The Hollywood Palace | Self | 1964 |
| Zotz! | Persephone Updike | 1962 |
| Buster Keaton in Wildwest | (archive footage) | 1962 |
| Auntie Mame | Noblewoman in Play | 1958 |
| The Donna Reed Show | Mrs. Westcott Trilling | 1958 |
| Shake, Rattle & Rock! | Georgianna Fitzdingle | 1956 |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Dowager no. 1 | 1956 |
| Studio 57 | Mrs. Sabine | 1954 |
| Stop, You're Killing Me | Mrs. Harriet Whitelaw / Mrs. Whitelaw | 1952 |
| Three for Bedroom C | Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne | 1952 |
| My Friend Irma | Mrs. Richard Rhinelander Jr | 1952 |
| The Stu Erwin Show | Mrs. Selkirk | 1950 |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self | 1950 |
| The Bob Hope Show | Self - Rosemary's Mother | 1950 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Mrs. Claypool in 'A Night at the Opera' | 1948 |
| Susie Steps Out | Mrs. Starr | 1946 |
| Little Giant | Mrs. Hendrickson | 1946 |
| Sunset in El Dorado | Aunt Arabella / Aunt Dolly | 1945 |
| Diamond Horseshoe | Mrs. Standish | 1945 |
| The Horn Blows at Midnight | Miss Rodholder / Mme. Traviata | 1945 |
| Bathing Beauty | Mrs. Allenwood | 1944 |
| Seven Days Ashore | Mrs. Croxton-Lynch | 1944 |
| Up in Arms | Mrs. Willoughby | 1944 |
| The Dancing Masters | Louise Harlan | 1943 |
| Rhythm Parade | Ophelia MacDougal | 1942 |
| Tales of Manhattan | Mme. Langehanke (Fields sequence) | 1942 |
| About Face | Mrs. Culpepper | 1942 |
| Sing Your Worries Away | Flo Faulkner - Landlady | 1942 |
| Born to Sing | Mrs. E. V. Lawson | 1942 |
| Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | Mrs. Hemogloben | 1941 |
| The Big Store | Martha Phelps | 1941 |
| For Beauty's Sake | Mrs. Franklin Evans | 1941 |
| At the Circus | Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury / Mrs. Dukesbury | 1939 |
| The Women | Mrs. Wagstaff | 1939 |
| Dramatic School | Pantomime Teacher / Pantomimic Teacher | 1938 |
| Wise Girl | Mrs. Bell-Rivington | 1937 |
| High Flyers | Martha Arlington | 1937 |
| Youth on Parole | Mrs. Abernathy | 1937 |
| The Life of the Party | Mrs. Penner | 1937 |
| A Day at the Races | Mrs. Emily Upjohn / Emily Upjohn | 1937 |
| Arbor Day | Woman talking to the midgets outside | 1936 |
| Song and Dance Man | Mrs. Whitney | 1936 |
| Anything Goes | Mrs. Wentworth | 1936 |
| A Night at the Opera | Mrs. Claypool | 1935 |
| Rendezvous | Mrs. Hendricks | 1935 |
| Orchids to You | Mrs. Belknap | 1935 |
| Reckless | Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' | 1935 |
| Gypsy Sweetheart | Mrs. Van Updyke | 1935 |
| After Office Hours | Mrs. Murchison | 1935 |
| Kentucky Kernels | Mrs. Baxter | 1934 |
| Gridiron Flash | Mrs. Fields | 1934 |
| Fifteen Wives | Sybilla Crum | 1934 |
| We're Rich Again | Wedding Guest | 1934 |
| Duck Soup | Gloria Teasdale | 1933 |
| Storm at Daybreak | Duchess Sophie | 1933 |
| The Girl Habit | Blanche Ledyard | 1931 |
| Animal Crackers | Mrs. Rittenhouse | 1930 |
| The Cocoanuts | Mrs. Potter | 1929 |
| Enemies of Women | French Beauty | 1923 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Aristocrat | 1917 |
