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Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, “The Fifth Marx Brother” 

“I’ll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now – you and the moon. You wear a neck-tie so I’ll know you.” Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in The Cocoanuts.

The film The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers, was well received everywhere it played. Critics praised the production, calling it “tuneful” and “full of beauty and uproariously funny.”  Margaret, a seasoned Broadway veteran, had been singled out in reviews which called her a “stately dowager with refined acting and singing gifts.”

To learn more about Dumont’s work with the Marx Brothers and the making of The Cocoanuts read Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, “The Fifth Marx Brother.”