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Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965)〔(International Genealogical Index records, derived from Brooklyn birth certificates, 1866-1909 Department of Health )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chronology - The Marx Brothers )〕 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." ==Early life and career== She was born Daisy Juliette Baker in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of William and Harriet Anna (née Harong) Baker.〔 As a child, she lived in the South, where she was mainly raised by her godfather, writer Joel Chandler Harris.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scene Stealers: Margaret Dumont )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Character )〕 She grew to stand 5' 9" (1.75 m). Dumont trained as an operatic singer and actress in her teens, and began performing on stage in both the U.S. and in Europe, at first under the name Daisy Dumont and later as Margaret (or Marguerite) Dumont. Her theatrical debut was in ''Beauty and the Beast'' at the Chestnut Theater in Philadelphia, and in August 1902, two months before her 20th birthday, she appeared as a singer/comedienne in a vaudeville act in Atlantic City. The dark-haired soubrette, described by a theater reviewer as a "statuesque beauty", attracted notice later that decade for her vocal and comedic talents in ''The Girl Behind the Counter'' (1908), ''The Belle of Brittany'' (1909), and ''The Summer Widower'' (1910).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of The Marx Brothers: Simon Louvish: 9780312252922: Amazon.com: Books )〕 In 1910, she married millionaire sugar heir and industrialist John Moller Jr., and retired from stage work, although she had a small uncredited role as an aristocrat in a 1917 film adaptation of ''A Tale of Two Cities''.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Dumont )〕 The marriage was childless. After her husband's sudden death during the 1918 influenza pandemic, she returned reluctantly to the Broadway stage, and soon gained a strong reputation in musical comedy productions.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Dumont (1889 - 1965) - Find A Grave Memorial )〕 She never remarried. Her Broadway career included roles in the musical comedies and plays ''The Fan'' (1921), ''Go Easy, Mabel'' (1922), ''The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly'' (1923/24), and ''The Fourflusher'' (1925),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Dumont - IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information )〕 and she had an uncredited role in the 1923 film ''Enemies of Women''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Dumont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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