Directed by:
Leo McCareyCinematography:
Henry SharpComposer:
John LeipoldCast:
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern, Edmund Breese, Charles Middleton, Edgar Kennedy (more)Plots(1)
Leo McCarey directs this 1930s comedy starring the Marx brothers. Set in the fictional country of Freedonia, the story follows the decision of government, in the midst of a financial crisis, to appoint Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) as its president in the hope of securing funding from the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (Margaret Dumont). (Universal Pictures UK)
(more)Cast
Groucho Marx
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Monkey Business (1931)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Harpo Marx
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Monkey Business (1931)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Chico Marx
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Monkey Business (1931)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Zeppo Marx
USA
Best movies:
Monkey Business (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
Horse Feathers (1932)
Margaret Dumont
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Raquel Torres
Mexico
Best movies:
Duck Soup (1933)
Louis Calhern
USA
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Edmund Breese
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Duck Soup (1933)
Mata Hari (1931)
Charles Middleton
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Good Earth (1937)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Edgar Kennedy
USA
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
Double Wedding (1937)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Dale Van Sickel
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
William Worthington
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Edward Arnold
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Carrie Daumery
Netherlands
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Wade Boteler
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Edmund Mortimer
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Edward LeSaint
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Edison, the Man (1940)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Sidney Bracey
Australia
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
The Cameraman (1928)
Freaks (1932)
Leonid Kinskey
Russia
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Talk of the Town (1942)