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14. Margaret Dumont, who was a supporting actress in seven of the thirteen Marx Brothers feature movies.

Reply to twodogsbarking (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 22, 2025, 02:30 PM

Aug 22

Commonly, she was wooed by Groucho because of her wealth. But was also the butt of Groucho's insults.

Wikipedia gives good details about her role in the Marx Brothers' movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Dumont

Here they are in a re-enactment of a scene from Animal Crackers, a film they did 35 years earlier. This was televised just three days before Dumont died of a heart attack in 1965.

Groucho's daughter Melinda introduces the skit.

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