Margaret Dumont
출생 : 1882-10-20, Brooklyn, New York, USA
사망 : 1965-03-06
약력
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).
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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.
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Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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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.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Mrs. Foster
루이자(셜리 맥클레인 분)는 2억 달러의 재산을 가진 미망인이다. 그녀는 결혼하는 남자들마다 바로 죽어 버려 점점 부자가 되어 버린 신기한 운명의 여자. 자신이 저주받았다고 생각하고 자신의 전재산을 정부에 기부하려고 하는 루이자는 자신의 이야기를 정신과 의사인 스티븐슨(로버트 커밍스 분)에게 털어놓는다. 루이자의 이야기는 젊었을 때로 돌아간다. 당시 루이자는 돈 많은 바람둥이 레너드 크롤리(딘 마틴 분)와 가난하지만 점잖은 에드가 호퍼(딕 반 다이크 분) 중 한 남자를 택해야 하는 상황에 있었다. 그녀는 에드가를 택했고 에드가는 루이자에게 좋은 집과 풍족한 삶을 제공하기 위해 열심히 일해 부자가 된다. 하지만 그런 과정에서 그는 과로로 숨지게 되고 낙담한 루이자는 파리로 떠난다. 파리에서 고국을 떠나 살고 있는 미국인 화가 래리 플린트(폴 뉴먼 분)와 사랑을 하게된다. 래리는 소리를 이용해 그림을 그리는 기계를 만들어 엄청난 부자가 되는데 그 역시 유명세를 탄 후 곧 죽는다. 루이자는 다시 미국으로 돌아와 로드(로버트 미첨 분)와 결혼해서 자신의 불운을 깨 보려고 한다. 로드는 사업계의 거물로 이미 많은 돈을 가지고 있다. 루이자와 결혼한 로드는 좀더 편안한 생활을 위해 농부가 되기로 결심하지만 황소와 부딪쳐 목숨을 잃게 된다. 루이자는 절망에 빠져 어느 날 밤 허름한 술집에서 2류 배우인 제리(진 켈리 분)를 만난다. 그들은 결혼하고 루이자 덕에 부자가 된 제리는 스타가 되는데...
Persephone Updike
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. Soon, he's pursued by enemy spies who have learned about the magic coin.
Noblewoman in Play (uncredited)
아버지가 죽고 패트릭은 아버지의 유언에 따라 뉴욕의 메임 고모 집으로 가게 된다. 또한 니커버커 은행의 드와이트 배브콕이 패트릭의 전 재산을 관리하고 자유분방한 성격의 고모로부터 아이를 보호하도록 되어있다. 자유분방한 고모와 보수적인 배브콕의 성격 때문에 많은 갈등이 생기는데, 결국 메임을 믿지 못한 배브콕의 의견에 따라 패트릭은 메임과 떨어져 기숙학교에 다니게 되는데...
Georgianna Fitzdingle
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.
Mrs. Whitelaw
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Mrs. Agnes Hawthorne
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. Comedy.
Mrs. Hendrickson
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Aunt Dolly / Aunt Arabella
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
Mrs. Standish
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. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. Which does Bonnie want more, the fur coat or true love? Plot is a framework for numerous Ziegfeld style stage productions.
Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
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.
Mrs. Allenwood
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.
Mrs. Croxton-Lynch
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Mrs. Willoughby
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Louise Harlan
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. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.
Ophelia MacDougal
A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.
Mme. Langehanke (uncredited)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Mrs. Culpepper
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Flo Faulkner - Landlady
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. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.
Mrs. E. V. Lawson
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.
Mrs. Hemogloben
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Martha Phelps
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Mrs. Franklin Evans
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
Pantomime Teacher
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. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Mrs. Bell-Rivington
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Martha Arlington
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Mrs. Abernathy
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.
Mrs. Penner
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Emily Upjohn
헐리우드 역사상 코미디 영화에 가장 큰 영향력을 끼친 형제 재담꾼들로 연극, 영화 라디오에서 30년 동안 인기를 끌었으며 사회 저명인사들과 조직사회에 대한 재기 발랄한 공격으로 유명하다.
Mrs. Whitney
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Mrs. Wentworth
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. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Mrs. Claypool
촉망받는 소프라노 로자와 아직 데뷔하지 못한 그녀의 애인 리카르도, 그리고 로자를 빼앗으려는 허영심 많은 성공한 테너 로돌포 사이의 삼각관계를 그린다. 식은 죽 먹기(Duck Soup)의 흥행 참패 이후 2년간 작품 활동이 없었던 막스 형제에게 MGM의 프로듀서 어빙 탈버그가 함께 작업할 것을 제안하면서 제작한 첫 번째 작품이자 막스 형제의 출연작 중 가장 높은 수익을 기록한 작품이기도 하다. 막스 형제는 염세적인 성향의 무정부주의자였다고 알려져 있는데, 이런 성향 때문인지 파라마운트에서 제작했던 초기 작품들은 다소 거칠고 엉성하지만, 그들만의 염세적인 세계관이 잘 드러난다고 평가받는다. 반면 MGM으로 이적 후 제작된 작품은 잘 짜인 플롯에 상황마다 적절한 위트가 배치된 대중적인 작품으로 흥행에서 큰 성공을 거두었다. 록그룹 퀸은 1975년에 동명의 앨범을 발표했으며, 다음 해인 76년에도 막스 형제의 출연작 중 하나인 경마장의 하루(A Day at the Races)라는 이름의 앨범을 발표해 막스 형제가 영화계뿐만 아니라 문화계에 미친 영향을 확인할 수 있다.
Woman in Audience Yelling 'Get Off the Stage' (uncredited)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Mrs. Van Updyke
Tina (Wini Shaw), a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom (Phillip Reed) to come over to his mother's (Margaret Dumont) estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing and dancing. Most of the comedy is supplied by the kleptomaniac butler,Bellingham, (Eddie Shubert) and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.
Mrs. Murchison (uncredited)
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
Mrs. Baxter
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
Mrs. Fields
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Sybilla Crum
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
Gloria Teasdale
찰리 채플린, 버스터 키튼, 해롤드 로이드 등과 함께 할리우드 슬랩스틱 코미디의 전성기를 상징하는 존재인 막스 형제가 총출연한 영화. 작고 영세한 국가인 프리도니아가 파산위기에 처하자 자산가인 티스데일 여사는 파이어플라이를 대통령 자리에 앉히면 큰 돈을 기부하겠다고 제안한다. 한편 이웃나라 실바니아의 대사 트렌티노는 프리도니아를 수중에 넣을 속셈으로 파이어플라이 주변에 두 명의 스파이를 파견한다. 그루초 특유의 빠르고 쏜살같은 냉소적인 대사들과 하포와 치코의 눈부신 콤비플레이가 빛을 발하는 매혹적인 작품.
Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Self
Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Brothers film set.
The Queen of Deleria (uncredited)
Joe Penner as a incompetent crown prince in the middle of a revolution.
Blanche Ledyard
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Mrs. Rittenhouse
‘스펄딩’이라는 인물은 TV 프로그램에서도 등장했던 캐릭터로 잠시의 쉴 틈도 없이 움직이며 동시에 입을 놀림으로써 황당하면서도 통쾌한 웃음을 선사한다. 어느 날 리튼하우스 부인의 대저택에서 화려한 파티가 개최된다. 이 파티에는 탐험가 대장 지오프리티 스펄딩이 참가하며 또한 부유한 예술후원가 로스코 W. 챈들러가 보가드의 유명한 그림 ‘사냥후’를 파티장에 전시한다고 하여 더욱 화제가 되고 있다. 곧 파티가 시작되고 많은 사람들이 모여들면서 파티장은 소란스러워진다. 한편 이 곳에 온 그레이스와 존은 서로 사랑하는 사이이지만 아직 알려지지 않은 화가인 존의 경제능력이 없어 결혼을 하지 못하고 있는 상태이다. 그들은 존을 세상에 알리기 위해 존이 베낀 보가드의 ‘사냥후’를 몰래 진품과 바꿔치기 하기로 한다. 수많은 소동 끝에 그림을 바꿔치기 하지만 사람들은 곧 이를 알아차린다. 오랜 범인 색출 작업 끝에 경찰이 출동하기에 이르고 결국 사람들은 존과 그레이스가 한 짓이라는 것을 알아낸다. 하지만 사람들의 요청에 의해 경찰은 범인들을 너그러이 용서하고 존은 그의 그림 실력을 인정받기에 이른다. 과 함께 막스 형제가 브로드웨이에서 활동할 당시 인기를 끌었던 뮤지컬을 영화화한 작품. 영화는 아프리카 탐험가인 제프린 스펄딩을 주축으로 부유한 리튼하우스 부인의 저택에 초대받은 손님들과 사라진 그림을 둘러싼 좌충우돌을 유쾌하게 그렸다. 파라마운트사에서 제작한 막스 형제의 두 번째 작품이자 뉴욕 퀸즈의 파라마운트 아스토리아 스튜디오에서 촬영한 마지막 작품이기도 한다. 아스토리아 스튜디오의 일부는 현재 미국영상박물관(The American Museum of the Moving Image)로 사용되고 있다. (2014 한국영상자료원 - 막스 브라더스 특별전)
Mrs. Potter
막스 브라더스의 첫 장편영화. 영화는 플로리다에서 호텔을 경영하는 미스터 해머(그루초 막스)가 경영난에 직면하자 이를 타계하기 위한 계략을 꾸미는 과정을 마치 뮤지컬을 보듯 흥겨운 노래와 춤으로 보여준다. 영화로 만들어지기 이전 이미 동명의 뮤지컬 작품을 약 18개월 동안 상연하며 인기를 누렸고, 브로드웨이 입성 후 큰 성공을 거두었다. 초기 유성영화 작품 중 하나인 이 작품은 자세히 보면 당시 열악한 제작 환경을 엿볼 수 있다. 미스터 해머가 플로리다 부동산 지도를 보여 주는 장면에서 사운드를 녹음하는 음향 장비의 과도한 작동을 막기 위해 지도를 일부러 물에 적셔 둔 장면이 눈에 띈다. 막스 형제의 작품은 훗날 많은 영화 작품과 문화계에 영향을 미쳤다. 특히 테리 길리엄은 자신의 영화에 막스 형제의 작품을 여러 차례 인용했는데, 에서는 온 가족이 을 보는 장면을 삽입해 눈길을 끌었다. (2014 한국영상자료원 - 막스 브라더스 특별전)
Aristocrat (uncredited)
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
