Dumont, Margaret 1889-1965Overview
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Most widely held works about
Margaret Dumont
Most widely held works by
Margaret Dumont
Duck soup
by Marx Brothers
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26 editions published between 1933 and 2011 in English and held by 1,423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles. Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's secretary
The Marx Brothers
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4 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Horse feathers: Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College
The cocoanuts
by Joseph Santley
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11 editions published between 1929 and 2011 in English and held by 702 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron
Go West The big store
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3 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Go West, it's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The big store, the brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging
Room service
by William A Seiter
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Room Service: A cash-strapped theatrical troup tries to find a backer and keep from being thrown out of their hotel. At the Circus: The brothers try to keep the cash-strapped circus running by finding a backer
A day at the races
by Sam Wood
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14 editions published between 1937 and 2004 in English and held by 320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A zany comedy featuring the antics of the Marx brothers posing as a horse doctor, a jockey, and a vendor of bad racing tips
W.C. Fields comedy collection
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide You're telling me!: Sam Bisbee is an inventor who is the laughingstock in his small town. After demonstrating another failed invention, he meets a princess who promises to use her celebrity to turn his luck around
The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis collection
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 81 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Collegate Comedy Hour: Dean and Jerry bring their unique brand of comedy to one of television's best comedy-variety shows. The smooth crooning style of Dean Martin and the slapstick lunacy of Jerry Lewis mix hilariously with their guests
A night at the opera
by Sam Wood
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4 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Marx Brothers get mixed up with grand opera
Room service At the circus
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3 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Room Service: A cash-strapped theatrical troup tries to find a backer and keep from being thrown out of their hotel. At the Circus: The brothers try to keep the cash-strapped circus running by finding a backer
Laurel and Hardy collection
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Get ready to waltz, runba and pirouette with Laurel and Hardy as the hapless comic duo takes the reins of the Arthur Hurry School of Dancing
Colgate comedy hour
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two segments of the variety show featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The dancing masters
by Malcolm St. Clair
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2 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The boys would starve to death were it not for their only paying customer, socialite Trudy Harlan. Trudy is in love with Grant Lawrence, an aspiring inventor who needs financial backing for his revolutionary new flame thrower. Laurel and Hardy undertake several moneymaking schemes to help Grant, most of these coming a-cropper. Finally, Ollie remembers an accident-insurance policy taken out on Stan. He tries to arrange an accident so that the boys can collect a huge fee, but this scheme culminates in a wild bus ride, resulting in Ollie breaking his own leg
W.C. Fields comedy collection
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 30 WorldCat member libraries worldwide W.C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film consists mainly of a series of flashbacks-- a number of disjointed, funny and bizarre scenes spoofing his own cinematic career, Hollywood and the filmmaking industry
Never give a sucker an even break
by Edward Cline
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4 editions published between 1941 and 2004 in English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Fields plays himself in what begins as a movie-within-a-movie. Slapstick, verbal gags and song blend throughout as Fields, with a newly-adopted orphan niece and a variety of get-rich schemes, tries to sell a script to Esoteric Studios, becomes a wooden nutmeg salesman, skydives, moves in with a tribe of mountain dwellers, and participates in a high speed auto chase
Martin & Lewis Colgate comedy hour
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2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 25 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis sing it out and clown it up in these eight classic episodes from the popular 1950's Sunday night series
The best of Roy Rogers
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Down Dakota way: Roy visits his hometown of Sun Rock, en route to a Wild West show in Cheyenne, and ends up investigating the murder of a veterinarian who was killed after a bus holdup by the stepson of his old teacher, Dolly Paxton
The best of Roy Rogers
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Young Bill Hickok: Roy as Wild Bill Hickok and Sally Payne as Calamity Jane foil the plans of a European agent to seize western territory and control of California's wealth by forcing the state to break away from the union during the Civil War
Go west
by Edward Buzzell
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging
A day at the races a night in Casablanca
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1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A horse doctor and his friends try to keep a sanitarium from going under; brothers try to thwart Nazis looking to recover a stolen treasure after the war; broke theatrical producers try to find backing while avoiding the landlord; two circus hands and a lawyer try to save a circus for its owner more
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Best friends Business enterprises College presidents Comedy sketches Dance Dance schools Department stores Dictators Entertainers Explorers Fields, W. C.--(William Claude), Film adaptations Florida Funeral rites and ceremonies Horse racing--Betting Hotels Imaginary wars and battles Impostors and imposture Inheritance and succession Insurance crimes Inventions Inventors Jewel thieves Kaufman, George S.--(George Simon), Man-woman relationships Marx Brothers Medical drama Mexico Military training camps Motion picture industry Motion picture plays Motion pictures Opera Orphans Presidents Racetracks (Horse racing) Rich people Ryskind, Morrie, Sanatoriums Socialites Spies Stand-up comedy Swindlers and swindling Television comedies Theater--Finance Theatrical companies Theatrical producers and directors United States United States, West Wrestling matches
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Baker, Daisy Juliette 1889-1965
Baker, Margaret 1889-1965
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