page_title: Duck Soup (1933 film)
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Duck Soup (1933 film) / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup (1933) - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: Duck Soup is a 1933 pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. Released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred the "Four Marx Brothers" and also featured Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy. It was the last Marx Brothers film to feature Zeppo, and the last of five Marx Brothers movies released by Paramount Pictures.
  Compared to the Marx Brothers' previous Paramount films, Duck Soup was a box office disappointment, though not a "flop" as sometimes reported. The film opened to mixed reviews, although this by itself did not end the group's business with Paramount. Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened walk-out by the Marxes, crippled relationships between them and Paramount just as Duck Soup went into production. After the film fulfilled their five-picture contract with the studio, the Marxes and Paramount agreed to part ways.
context_section_description: Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly who, at Mrs. Teasdale's insistence, becomes the leader of Freedonia
  Harpo Marx as Pinky, a spy for Sylvania who never talks
  Chico Marx as Chicolini, another spy for Sylvania, one who never stops talking
  Zeppo Marx as Lt. Bob Roland, Firefly's secretary
  Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Gloria Teasdale, a rich widow who underwrites the budget of Freedonia
  Louis Calhern as Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania who schemes to have his country take over Freedonia
  Raquel Torres as Vera Marcal, a femme fatale who is working for Ambassador Trentino
  Edgar Kennedy as the lemonade vendor
  Edmund Breese as Former President Zander, Firefly's predecessor
  Edwin Maxwell as Former Secretary of War
  William Worthington as First Minister of Finance
  Davison Clark as Second Minister of Finance
  Charles Middleton as prosecutor
  Leonid Kinskey as Sylvanian agitator
  Verna Hillie as Trentino's secretary
  George MacQuarrie as first judge
  Fred Sullivan as second judge
  Eric Mayne as third judge
  Wade Boteler as officer at battle headquarters (uncredited)
  Carrie Daumery as reception guest (uncredited)
caption: Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image Software": "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6001.18000", "Image DateTime": "2015:09:17 13:22:31", "Image ExifOffset": "2202", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4420", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2578", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "D9BB94F140EC4AD8BFC29A4ECCAC8FB1", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}