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- Works
- 2
Top works
- Review and Analysis on Escape into Meaning
- Review and Analysis of an Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Landrigan
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Film & TV
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults — (archive footage)1999
- The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell — (archive footage)1982
- The Hollywood Clowns — (archive footage)1979
- That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)1976
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)1975
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)1972
- What a Way to Go! — Mrs. Foster1964
- Zotz! — Persephone Updike1962
- Around the World with Nellie Bly — Dowager #11960
- Auntie Mame — Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)1958
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- 9
- Total plays
- 35
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margaret
- Family name
- Dumont
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Margaret Dumont - A Night at the Opera (1935).png
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- date of birth
- 1882-10-20
- date of death
- 1965-03-06
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Margaret Dumont
- start of work period
- 1902-00-00
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