Cast: Margaret Dumont

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Margaret Dumont. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


A Night at the Opera

1935 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same boat: Harpo and Chico. The three of them stir up...

8.3

45K votes

8.3

45K votes

Duck Soup

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T. Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse,...

8.1

39K votes

8.1

39K votes

A Day at the Races

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Town villain Morgan has his sights set on taking over Judy's sanitarium and turning it into a casino. Aiding Judy in saving the sanitarium are Dr. Hugo Hackenbush, a horse doctor illegally employed as the sanitarium director; Tony, a helper...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

Animal Crackers

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Victor Heerman

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

At the Circus

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Women

1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland

Synopsis Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Big Store

1941 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Groucho, Harpo and Chico turn a big department store upside down as New York detectives trying to foil the hostile takeover the store and prevent a murder. Pretty late in the day for the Marxes - but still lost of...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis 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.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

The Cocoanuts

1929 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley · Robert Florey

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Dancing Masters

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Trudy Marshall · Robert Bailey

Synopsis Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast W.C. Fields · Gloria Jean · Leon Errol · Billy Lenhart

Synopsis Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. He becomes his niece's guardian when her mother is killed...

6.2

57 votes

6.2

57 votes

What a Way to Go!

1964 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Paul Newman · Robert Mitchum · Dean Martin

Synopsis A classic of 60's film decadence, WHAT A WAY TO GO stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow four times over who is left with more money than she knows what to do with. When she signs an unsolicited, multimillion-dollar...

5.9

672 votes

5.9

672 votes

Bathing Beauty

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.8

922 votes

5.8

922 votes

Seven Days Ashore

1944 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Wally Brown · Alan Carney · Marcy McGuire · Dooley Wilson

Synopsis Dan Arland, a womanizing playboy, is looking forward to a seven day leave in his home town of San Francisco with one of two beautiful violinists playing for an all-girl swing band but can't decide which of the two gorgeous...

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Orchids to You

1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast John Boles · Jean Muir · Charles Butterworth · Ruthelma Stevens

Synopsis An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

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Sing your worries away

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Bert Lahr · June Havoc · Buddy Ebsen · Patsy Kelly

Synopsis 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. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000....

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Not rated

After Office Hours

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Constance Bennett · Clark Gable · Stuart Erwin · Billie Burke

Synopsis Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her...

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated