Duck Soup
War is swell...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Director Leo McCarey
Trailer
Cast
Margaret Dumont
Gloria Teasdale
Leonid Kinskey
Sylvanian Agitator
Joseph Crehan
Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
Groucho Marx
Rufus T. Firefly
Edward Arnold
Politician (uncredited)
William Worthington
First Minister of Finance (uncredited)
Harpo Marx
Pinky
Edmund Breese
Zander
Charles Middleton
Prosecutor
Wade Boteler
Officer at Battle Headquarters (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Bridegroom at Firefly's Reception (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
A Palace Guard (uncredited)
Chico Marx
Chicolini
Raquel Torres
Vera Marcal
Edgar Kennedy
Street Vendor
Verna Hillie
Trentino's Blonde Secretary (uncredited)
George MacQuarrie
First Judge (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Third Judge (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
Freedonia's Secretary of War #1 (uncredited)
Zeppo Marx
Bob Roland
Louise Closser Hale
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Maude Turner Gordon
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Charles West
Minister (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Louis Calhern
Ambassador Trentino
E.H. Calvert
Officer in Battle Sequence (uncredited)
Frederick Sullivan
Second Judge (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Minister of Finance #2 (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Secretary of Labor (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)