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Howard Kazanjian
Books by Howard Kazanjian
Straight Lady
The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"
By Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian
Foreword by Vicki Lawrence
On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. A Broadway regular by the 1920s, Dumont found lasting fame once she started appearing with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the perfect foil to the wisecracking Groucho Marx in ...
