Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

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),Dumont trained as an operatic singer and actress in her teens, and began performing on stage in both America and Europe, at first under the name Daisy Dumont and later as Margaret (or Marguerite) Dumont. Her theatrical debut was in Beauty and the Beast at the Chestnut Theater in Philadelphia, and in August 1902, two months before her 20th birthday, she appeared as a singer/comedienne in a vaudeville act in Atlantic City. 

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont