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Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)

Born
October 20, 1882
Died
March 6, 1965
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1882

About Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother." Dumont trained as an operatic singer and actress in her teens and began performing on stage in the US and Europe, at first under the name Daisy Dumont and later as Margaret (or Marguerite - French for Daisy) Dumont. Dumont appeared in 57 films, including some minor silent work beginning with A Tale of Two Cities (1917).

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The world when Margaret Dumont was born

Margaret Dumont was born in 1882. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineChinese Exclusion Act signed
  • Technology milestoneFirst hydroelectric power plant (Appleton, WI)
  • World population~1.42B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population51.9M

1882 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Margaret Dumont's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18822026
Population51.9M341 million

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