I love the Marx Brothers. And watching Margaret Dumont trying not to laugh is awesome.

Even watching this scene with the sound off I started laughing so hard!

The Marx brothers and Three Stioges were far funnier than most comedians today. Great stuff !

@AceripXF

3 жыл бұрын

Stooges*

@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635

3 жыл бұрын

AceripXF I think Marxes and Stooges are the funniest comedians

@jolinkarlsson8569

3 жыл бұрын

I watch and love both and my grandpa too Cause he grew up With both

@Laughandsong

2 жыл бұрын

You insult the Marx Brothers by putting them in the same category as the Stooges. Stooges were not funny and always doing the same act. Now Laurel and Hardy are in the same category as the Marxes.

@pauledwards3992

2 жыл бұрын

Nochickenwingsforyou- everybody has their opinion. That's cool. But the Three Stooges were excellent comedians. Personally, I wasn't too keen about Laurel and Hardy. That's what makes the world go around, we all have different opinions. And I respect that you have yours. Laurel and Hardy weren't insulted today. I'm sure they are turning over in their graves about it. Lol.

Dumont: 'Oh, we just play for small stakes' Chico: 'And french fried potatoes?' *this line always makes me laugh*

@briank7399

3 жыл бұрын

Me too ...The look on her face priceless

@briank7399

3 жыл бұрын

Harpo you couldn't help but love him

@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635

2 жыл бұрын

Lol That line got me roaring with laughter

2 Aces of spades ?.....'yea, he's go thousands of them' :)

Dumont trying desperately not to burst out into laughter.

@themopar426

3 жыл бұрын

how she didnt laugh working with curley

@AceripXF

3 жыл бұрын

@@themopar426 Curly*

@kevinwachs5905

3 жыл бұрын

@@themopar426, when did Margaret Dumont work with Curley/Curly? Dumont's type of role was played by Simone Boniface in the Three Stooges shorts.

@themopar426

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwachs5905 paedon my scotch i think

@kevinwachs5905

3 жыл бұрын

@@themopar426, no, Dumont was not in that.

My dad introduced me to the Marx Brothers. They are so fast and clever.💕

"He thought it was *contact* bridge" 😆😆😆

Usually Dumont was in scenes with Groucho. Very rare for her to be in a scene with just Chico and Harpo. It's kind of nice. Early on, Harpo takes her hand and means to hit her with a blackjack (or whatever that is) and hits himself instead and she says, "It's your own fault." It's like she is scolding a child. Very different from her scenes with Groucho, who mostly just insults her. She almost seems to be having a good time here.

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

Until Harpo starts punching her in the stomach, lol. That's about the roughest treatment she ever got from them, apart from being fired out of a cannon in At the Circus.

@halwasserman7905

2 жыл бұрын

@@premanadi When did he punch her in the stomach? As for At The Circus, the hell with that one. Not a good Marx Brothers film.

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

@@halwasserman7905 Right after this scene, the women come back into the room, Harpo jumps on them, Dumont pulls him off and he falls down, then he goes into a sort of prizefighter thing and starts punching her in the stomach repeatedly. He's not really punching her, more lifting her up into the air. She doesn't get hurt, but it's a pretty startling moment, maybe the Marx bros. most visually violent assault on the upper class. Poor Margaret doesn't really do anything to deserve it, lol. I agree, At The Circus is crap. The quality of their writers was terrible after Night At The Opera. Even Day At The Races is pretty patchy, and things were getting all sappy and cliched at that point. It was a big mistake for the studios to try to turn them into sentimental heroes of the story. They only worked as anarchic, chaotic outsiders.

@halwasserman7905

2 жыл бұрын

@@premanadi Now that you mention it, I do recall the stomach-punching moment. Completely agree about Day at the Races. The Marx Brothers should have definitely hung up their hats after Night at the Opera.

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

@@halwasserman7905 Well, I don't think the problem was so much with them. It was that their writers were shitty after that. I don't know why they couldn't have kept using the same great people they had in the previous few years. I think the studios just screwed them over. Too bad they didn't write their own material, like Fields.

Imagine Margaret Dumont in.modern comedies. She's better than anyone today.

Off and running when Harpo helps in opening the card table! Dumont’s a treat!

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

That card table bit is one of the best things every! Brilliant.

"I'm not the dummy!""well you could be" 😄

chico: dummy leads margaret: im not the dummy *Harpos face* LMAOOO

@mtroy0620

25 күн бұрын

"well you could be"

I couldn't imagine the camera sitting that still even for a second in any movie these days. Folks have lost their attention spans when it comes to films. Marx Brothers were the best.

This scene is absolutely lovely

"Ace of spades...ace of spades...ace of spades...ace of spades...he plays a good game."

He thought it was contact bridge...LOLLOL!!!

@davidreid8075

3 ай бұрын

I thought it was pontoon Bridge!

Love Harpo he is so cute love Chico too my two favorites

The fifth Marx....Miss Dumont

My mum was a bridge expert. Forty years, they were building that bridge and she got a paycheck every week!

“Extraordinary! 😲” 😂😂

The things that poor woman had to put up with ,she was very good almost the fourth brother ,

I love when Harpo is dealing the cards the way he SCRUMBLED them up and cut the deck and started dealing showing all the good cards to Chico and tossing the others away. I did that playing poker with my friends see if would catch me they caught on in a few seconds and got a kick out of it

I love the Marx brothers. My favorite is Harpo ❤

@ev6558

3 жыл бұрын

He plays a good game, you cannot deny that.

@joebrian485

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@joebrian485

2 жыл бұрын

Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends?? Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.

@maestroclassico5801

Ай бұрын

His speaking voice threw me off.....it was deeper than his brothers' voices

My favourite comedy team. Timeless.

Seeing a docu about Harpo, he was an interesting character with a lot to offer. He was under appreciated me thinks.

I'm sure Margaret Dumont had a hard time keeping a straight face in these movies!

Chico Marx had three kinds of friends: producers who gambled, actors who gambled, and women who---well, I guess you could call it gambling if you were the woman. But he did help his brother Groucho financially after he lost most of his money in the Crash.

“He thought it was contact bridge….” 😂

Scrumble them up a bit. LoL 😂😅

Completely nutz! Bless 'em!

It's so interesting how Harpo was throwing the cards all around, but then he picked up one that he accidentally dropped.

Margaret was a beautiful woman.

@vincentsartain3061

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't used to think so, but when I caught up with her age in the Marx Brothers movies and started passing it, she began to look pretty darn good to me! 😁

Lol Harpo may been crazy and causes chaos he’s cute

Awesome, you publish this on my birthday lol. 🙂👍

Joe Adamson said it best in his breezy, brilliant bio "Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Sometimes Zeppo". Traveling with Dumont by train while touring with "Coconuts" and "Animal Crackers", Harpo would steal her wig (she was bald from a childhood disease) and she'd have to exit the train with a Pullman towel wrapped around her head. All the boys would grab a passing conductor, pull down his pants and throw him into her compartment on top of her and Groucho would casually insult her virtue and honor much in public as he did on stage. And Ms. Dumont would merely roll her eyes and sigh as if she was putting up with a gaggle of lovable and incorrigible boys. What a great woman. She never lost her cool or regal dignity because she knew full well she was in on the joke.

Having breakfast with the Marx Brothers will leave you hungry! Lol

2 aces of spades? yah hes got thousands of them LOL

The way I play cards....with a hey-nonnie, nonnie and a ha-cha-cha! HIlarious!

When I was younger I never would have thought about Margaret Dumont in a romantic way, but now that I'm older, I'm not saying I will but I might. 😉

@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

I agree she was an attractive older woman. Very well spoken and classy.

@biggusdickus5986

2 ай бұрын

She was a professional opera singer. Big lass too, statuesque

Love Margaret Dumont Thank You

Imagine being one of the players and knowing that if you laugh you'll ruin the one take they used to do.

I never paid much attention to the women because they acted so well

Pure joy!

Margaret Dumont was the greatest straightwoman ever, although it appears that she's having a difficult time keeping a straight face here.

@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

IKR. Great scene, makes me laugh just looking at her trying not to laugh.

That's quite a kicker.

❤️Margaret

4:04 Dummy leads.

@robg71

5 жыл бұрын

"Im not the dummy" "Well you could be" :)

I’m gonna be rich!!! Gen Z ? Bridge? Or crazy eights? It looks so easy!!!

Contact bridge!

I don't think she's so much trying to keep from laughing here. It still fits the character. She's bemused by the silly little man supposed to be shuffling the deck and he's doing it separately. She's not supposed to be the focus in the scene. As far as her getting the humor or not getting it, I think she understood it, there's not a lot to not be understood, it's just quick and done, but I could believe it wasn't her level of humor, but obviously she definitely embellishes their silliness.

we play for small stakes n french fries pototas? lol!

@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635

3 жыл бұрын

Today is March 22, 2021 and Chico was born in March 22, 1887 and Died in August 1961. This fellow comedian is officially 134 after his death almost 60 years ago.

@AceripXF

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 yup i know i got a nice lil tribute for him in my stooges/marx bro fb group ^_^

How often did Dumont crack up? Would love to see outtakes of her just bursting out laughing

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

She was too much of a pro for that.

@loge10

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, my understanding is that Dumont didn't get much of the Marx Brothers antics. Many of her reactions were authentic!

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

@@loge10 That's what Groucho always liked to claim, but I think that's highly doubtful. She was not a stupid woman. I think he was bending the truth for effect.

@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

@@premanadi Yea, Groucho is not one to be truthful I have learned in reading books and quotes by many others involved with the Brothers.

Harpo was just a little boy😊

what FUN

Hard to believe the fact was that Maggie in real life didn't understand any of the jokes they had to explain them to her later

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

Groucho liked to say that, but she clearly did understand them.

@biggusdickus5986

2 ай бұрын

She fully understood them which makes her performance even better.

Out side of a dog a book is mans best friend inside of of a dog its to dark to read.

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

brill xx❤

😁♥️⭐️

Apparently Margaret Dumont claimed she didn't get many of the jokes. The one thing they didn't make joke's about, Dumont was completely bald.

@nickjgunning

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray inserted by the software after I sent it. This often happens.

@briank7399

3 жыл бұрын

There was that great line where Groucho ask her for a lock of her hair Then told her that she was lucky that he didn't ask for the whole wig

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

It's Groucho who said that about her, but she clearly did understand them. He just liked to BS.

Keith Moon with laryngitis and a blonde wig, no drums.

In Dick Cavett's interview with Groucho, he asserts that Margaret Dumont never figured out that she was a foil, and that she really didn't have a clue what was happening.

@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

I have learned not to believe everything Groucho says/remembers. Too many years had gone by and many people gone when he was back in the limelight. He could say/remember anything he wanted without being contradicted.

What movie is this scene from ?

@MattHawes

2 ай бұрын

"Animal Crackers"

@eblackadder3

Ай бұрын

Animal Crackers.

@Harfa_Traw

Күн бұрын

Animal Crackers (1930)

😵😬🤐

"Females, how do you want to play? Honest"? Mgtow

I've heard from several sources,(Dick Cavett, etc.) that Margaret Dumont really didn't find them funny in the least.....

@sven8957

Ай бұрын

The primary source for that is Groucho's claim that she asked him what are they laughing at. It's possible that she may not have understood a double entendre or two, but it's also obviously clear from what she has said and from their live performance that she generally appreciated the humor.

What is that thing at :40?

@premanadi

2 жыл бұрын

I think the official word for it would be a truncheon or a blackjack. A weapon for beating people, usually carried by cops but a criminal could have one.

@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

It's a blackjack. They make reference to it as well in the movie scene "the flash" when Harpo is emptying out his pockets looking for a flashlight. It was a weapon used back in their day.

@biggusdickus5986

2 ай бұрын

Or a sap

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@texasmimi5566

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are correct. Why are you writing this in a Marx Bros. video?

@biggusdickus5986

2 ай бұрын

Christ is everywhere, why not this site, l bet he would have liked the Marx Brothers.