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Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, “The Fifth Marx Brother”
Rufus T. Firefly: All I can offer you is a roofus over your head.
Mrs. Teasdale: Your Excellency, I really don’t know what to say.
Rufus T. Firefly: I wouldn’t know what to say either if I was in your place. Maybe you can suggest something.
On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was an entertainer who taught music, her father was a sea captain, and stepfather a set decorator for Broadway productions. She was forty-seven when she made her first movie with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the perfect foil to wisecracking Groucho Marx.
Almost alone among the wooden heroines and third-rate bit players who peopled the Marx Brothers’ films with victims, she radiated a memorable vulnerability and eternally renewable faith in the chance of sanity in a lunatic world. In doing so she shared their immortality.
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