Margaret Dumont Trailers
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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 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 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).
Most Popular Margaret Dumont Trailers
Total trailers found: 57
26 June 1952
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome biology professor.
31 December 1937
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village.
06 October 1934
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
02 November 1934
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him.
16 April 1942
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
01 October 1932
Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.
15 April 1923
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.
04 October 1937
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
17 February 1944
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
29 September 1945
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother.
10 January 1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
02 July 1964
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
14 June 1933
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand.
08 August 1930
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs.
09 December 1938
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night.
10 December 1952
With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
04 December 1958
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies.
18 February 1942
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
22 February 1935
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
15 July 1934
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel.
12 November 1933
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs.
01 November 1956
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.
01 January 1933
Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Brothers film set.
15 November 1935
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
05 August 1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it.
20 October 1939
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus.
20 July 1999
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.
11 March 1936
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
27 June 1944
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
11 December 1942
A showgirl trying to advance her career must hide the fact she is caring for a baby. With N.T.G. and The Florentine Gardens Revue, Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra, the Mills Brothers, and Candy Candido (The Man of a Thousand Voices).
02 May 1945
Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire.
11 June 1937
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil.
06 June 1941
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
19 April 1935
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
03 October 1962
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three powers: to inflict pain, slow down time or kill.
25 October 1935
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
19 November 1943
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor.
22 February 1946
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott.
13 December 1946
After her father loses his job because of illness, adolescent Susie Russell poses as older than she is in order to get a job singing in a night club.
24 January 1936
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her.
23 May 1929
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
20 June 1941
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
28 April 1945
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
16 May 1976
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
27 June 1931
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
02 January 1982
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this collection of highlights from their film, theater, and television appearances and offer a compelling look at their lives both on and off-screen.
23 March 1979
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
03 January 1960
Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columnist.
06 March 1942
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket.
25 April 1944
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
10 October 1941
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios.
07 November 1937
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter.
30 March 1935
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress.
03 September 1937
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
10 March 1917
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant.
02 May 1936
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
