Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont was born on Oct 20, 1882 in USA. Margaret Dumont's big-screen debut came with The Cocoanuts directed by Robert Florey in 1929. Margaret Dumont is known for Auntie Mame directed by Morton DaCosta, Rosalind Russell stars as Mame Dennis and Forrest Tucker as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. The upcoming new movie Margaret Dumont plays is What a Way to Go! which will be released on Jun 26, 1964.

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 Noix de coco (1929) and L'explorateur en folie (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).