Just For Fun.mp4

Marx Brothers playing bridge

[@o_foxxyfoxxy_o]

I love the Marx Brothers. And watching Margaret Dumont trying not to laugh is awesome.

[@ltvanburen8555]

My dad introduced me to the Marx Brothers. They are so fast and clever.💕

[@kingbolo4579]

Even watching this scene with the sound off I started laughing so hard!

[@pauledwards3992]

The Marx brothers and Three Stioges were far funnier than most comedians today. Great stuff !

[@AceripXF]

Stooges*

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

AceripXF I think Marxes and Stooges are the funniest comedians

[@jolinkarlsson8569]

I watch and love both and my grandpa too Cause he grew up With both

[@Laughandsong]

You insult the Marx Brothers by putting them in the same category as the Stooges. Stooges were not funny and always doing the same act. Now Laurel and Hardy are in the same category as the Marxes.

[@pauledwards3992]

Nochickenwingsforyou- everybody has their opinion. That's cool. But the Three Stooges were excellent comedians. Personally, I wasn't too keen about Laurel and Hardy. That's what makes the world go around, we all have different opinions. And I respect that you have yours. Laurel and Hardy weren't insulted today. I'm sure they are turning over in their graves about it. Lol.

[@andrearamirez700]

Dumont: 'Oh, we just play for small stakes' Chico: 'And french fried potatoes?' *this line always makes me laugh*

[@briank7399]

Me too ...The look on her face priceless

[@briank7399]

Harpo you couldn't help but love him

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

Lol That line got me roaring with laughter

[@viggosimonsen]

This scene is absolutely lovely

[@davidteller7681]

"I'm not the dummy!""well you could be" 😄

[@natewilson111]

"He thought it was *contact* bridge" 😆😆😆

[@civwar054]

Imagine Margaret Dumont in.modern comedies. She's better than anyone today.

[@track1219]

Off and running when Harpo helps in opening the card table! Dumont’s a treat!

[@premanadi]

That card table bit is one of the best things every! Brilliant.

[@jameswilson8433]

"Ace of spades...ace of spades...ace of spades...ace of spades...he plays a good game."

[@RossM3838]

Dumont trying desperately not to burst out into laughter.

[@themopar426]

how she didnt laugh working with curley

[@AceripXF]

@@themopar426 Curly*

[@kevinwachs5905]

@@themopar426, when did Margaret Dumont work with Curley/Curly? Dumont's type of role was played by Simone Boniface in the Three Stooges shorts.

[@themopar426]

@@kevinwachs5905 paedon my scotch i think

[@kevinwachs5905]

@@themopar426, no, Dumont was not in that.

[@cullinaaronkress]

I couldn't imagine the camera sitting that still even for a second in any movie these days. Folks have lost their attention spans when it comes to films. Marx Brothers were the best.

[@adespade119]

2 Aces of spades ?.....'yea, he's go thousands of them' :)

[@halwasserman7905]

Usually Dumont was in scenes with Groucho. Very rare for her to be in a scene with just Chico and Harpo. It's kind of nice. Early on, Harpo takes her hand and means to hit her with a blackjack (or whatever that is) and hits himself instead and she says, "It's your own fault." It's like she is scolding a child. Very different from her scenes with Groucho, who mostly just insults her. She almost seems to be having a good time here.

[@premanadi]

Until Harpo starts punching her in the stomach, lol. That's about the roughest treatment she ever got from them, apart from being fired out of a cannon in At the Circus.

[@halwasserman7905]

@@premanadi When did he punch her in the stomach? As for At The Circus, the hell with that one. Not a good Marx Brothers film.

[@premanadi]

@@halwasserman7905 Right after this scene, the women come back into the room, Harpo jumps on them, Dumont pulls him off and he falls down, then he goes into a sort of prizefighter thing and starts punching her in the stomach repeatedly. He's not really punching her, more lifting her up into the air. She doesn't get hurt, but it's a pretty startling moment, maybe the Marx bros. most visually violent assault on the upper class. Poor Margaret doesn't really do anything to deserve it, lol. I agree, At The Circus is crap. The quality of their writers was terrible after Night At The Opera. Even Day At The Races is pretty patchy, and things were getting all sappy and cliched at that point. It was a big mistake for the studios to try to turn them into sentimental heroes of the story. They only worked as anarchic, chaotic outsiders.

[@halwasserman7905]

@@premanadi Now that you mention it, I do recall the stomach-punching moment. Completely agree about Day at the Races. The Marx Brothers should have definitely hung up their hats after Night at the Opera.

[@premanadi]

@@halwasserman7905 Well, I don't think the problem was so much with them. It was that their writers were shitty after that. I don't know why they couldn't have kept using the same great people they had in the previous few years. I think the studios just screwed them over. Too bad they didn't write their own material, like Fields.

[@AceripXF]

chico: dummy leads margaret: im not the dummy *Harpos face* LMAOOO

[@mtroy0620]

"well you could be"

[@Alanoffer]

The things that poor woman had to put up with ,she was very good almost the fourth brother ,

[@Robbo57]

My favourite comedy team. Timeless.

[@theresaholguin699]

I love the Marx brothers. My favorite is Harpo ❤

[@ev6558]

He plays a good game, you cannot deny that.

[@joebrian485]

Same here

[@joebrian485]

Hi , it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m joe by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends?? Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture.

[@maestroclassico5801]

His speaking voice threw me off.....it was deeper than his brothers' voices

[@jolinkarlsson8569]

Love Harpo he is so cute love Chico too my two favorites

[@WildBillCox13]

My mum was a bridge expert. Forty years, they were building that bridge and she got a paycheck every week!

[@infjgirl3850]

“Extraordinary! 😲” 😂😂

[@mxylpx]

Completely nutz! Bless 'em!

[@nickyd.4695]

He thought it was contact bridge...LOLLOL!!!

[@davidreid8075]

I thought it was pontoon Bridge!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

The fifth Marx....Miss Dumont

[@vanpelt2321]

Joe Adamson said it best in his breezy, brilliant bio "Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Sometimes Zeppo". Traveling with Dumont by train while touring with "Coconuts" and "Animal Crackers", Harpo would steal her wig (she was bald from a childhood disease) and she'd have to exit the train with a Pullman towel wrapped around her head. All the boys would grab a passing conductor, pull down his pants and throw him into her compartment on top of her and Groucho would casually insult her virtue and honor much in public as he did on stage. And Ms. Dumont would merely roll her eyes and sigh as if she was putting up with a gaggle of lovable and incorrigible boys. What a great woman. She never lost her cool or regal dignity because she knew full well she was in on the joke.

[@TimRobinson-hc7mt]

I love when Harpo is dealing the cards the way he SCRUMBLED them up and cut the deck and started dealing showing all the good cards to Chico and tossing the others away. I did that playing poker with my friends see if would catch me they caught on in a few seconds and got a kick out of it

[@hectorheath9742]

Seeing a docu about Harpo, he was an interesting character with a lot to offer. He was under appreciated me thinks.

[@aredheadsretreat]

Margaret was a beautiful woman.

[@vincentsartain3061]

I didn't used to think so, but when I caught up with her age in the Marx Brothers movies and started passing it, she began to look pretty darn good to me! 😁

[@robertacevedo3502]

When I was younger I never would have thought about Margaret Dumont in a romantic way, but now that I'm older, I'm not saying I will but I might. 😉

[@texasmimi5566]

I agree she was an attractive older woman. Very well spoken and classy.

[@biggusdickus5986]

She was a professional opera singer. Big lass too, statuesque

[@extremecookie7931]

Awesome, you publish this on my birthday lol. 🙂👍

[@cynthiacronin2794]

Scrumble them up a bit. LoL 😂😅

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

Lol Harpo may been crazy and causes chaos he’s cute

[@jpgr9404]

Having breakfast with the Marx Brothers will leave you hungry! Lol

[@sparks8934]

Love Margaret Dumont Thank You

[@macsnafu]

I'm sure Margaret Dumont had a hard time keeping a straight face in these movies!

[@nicholaschiazza7926]

Chico Marx had three kinds of friends: producers who gambled, actors who gambled, and women who---well, I guess you could call it gambling if you were the woman. But he did help his brother Groucho financially after he lost most of his money in the Crash.

[@dragonmanmark]

I never paid much attention to the women because they acted so well

[@mishawakapost2681]

Margaret Dumont was the greatest straightwoman ever, although it appears that she's having a difficult time keeping a straight face here.

[@texasmimi5566]

IKR. Great scene, makes me laugh just looking at her trying not to laugh.

[@AceripXF]

2 aces of spades? yah hes got thousands of them LOL

[@billglover7875]

The way I play cards....with a hey-nonnie, nonnie and a ha-cha-cha! HIlarious!

[@stickymeat88]

Imagine being one of the players and knowing that if you laugh you'll ruin the one take they used to do.

[@steveg8322]

❤️Margaret

[@davewallace8219]

Pure joy!

[@TFSyndicate]

4:04 Dummy leads.

[@robg71]

"Im not the dummy" "Well you could be" :)

[@ryancoulter4797]

How often did Dumont crack up? Would love to see outtakes of her just bursting out laughing

[@premanadi]

She was too much of a pro for that.

[@loge10]

Actually, my understanding is that Dumont didn't get much of the Marx Brothers antics. Many of her reactions were authentic!

[@premanadi]

@@loge10 That's what Groucho always liked to claim, but I think that's highly doubtful. She was not a stupid woman. I think he was bending the truth for effect.

[@texasmimi5566]

@@premanadi Yea, Groucho is not one to be truthful I have learned in reading books and quotes by many others involved with the Brothers.

[@Tysto]

That's quite a kicker.

[@AceripXF]

we play for small stakes n french fries pototas? lol!

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

Today is March 22, 2021 and Chico was born in March 22, 1887 and Died in August 1961. This fellow comedian is officially 134 after his death almost 60 years ago.

[@AceripXF]

@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 yup i know i got a nice lil tribute for him in my stooges/marx bro fb group ^_^

[@davidbaise5137]

“He thought it was contact bridge….” 😂

[@greg55666]

It's so interesting how Harpo was throwing the cards all around, but then he picked up one that he accidentally dropped.

[@marieadams3720]

Contact bridge!

[@carolnahigian9518]

what FUN

[@mmmmm1113]

I’m gonna be rich!!! Gen Z ? Bridge? Or crazy eights? It looks so easy!!!

[@ianbell7342]

brill xx❤

[@2up3rm4n1]

I don't think she's so much trying to keep from laughing here. It still fits the character. She's bemused by the silly little man supposed to be shuffling the deck and he's doing it separately. She's not supposed to be the focus in the scene. As far as her getting the humor or not getting it, I think she understood it, there's not a lot to not be understood, it's just quick and done, but I could believe it wasn't her level of humor, but obviously she definitely embellishes their silliness.

[@kattrakee]

😁♥️⭐️

[@dplouro]

Harpo was just a little boy😊

[@briank7399]

Hard to believe the fact was that Maggie in real life didn't understand any of the jokes they had to explain them to her later

[@premanadi]

Groucho liked to say that, but she clearly did understand them.

[@biggusdickus5986]

She fully understood them which makes her performance even better.

[@TinaTheNaughtyDragon]

Out side of a dog a book is mans best friend inside of of a dog its to dark to read.

[@premanadi]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

[@user-ki1un4jg2d]

What movie is this scene from ?

[@MattHawes]

"Animal Crackers"

[@eblackadder3]

Animal Crackers.

[@Harfa_Traw]

Animal Crackers (1930)

[@nickjgunning]

Apparently Margaret Dumont claimed she didn't get many of the jokes. The one thing they didn't make joke's about, Dumont was completely bald.

[@nickjgunning]

@MichaelKingsfordGray inserted by the software after I sent it. This often happens.

[@briank7399]

There was that great line where Groucho ask her for a lock of her hair Then told her that she was lucky that he didn't ask for the whole wig

[@premanadi]

It's Groucho who said that about her, but she clearly did understand them. He just liked to BS.

[@kennethlatham3133]

Keith Moon with laryngitis and a blonde wig, no drums.

[@jimmetesky6019]

In Dick Cavett's interview with Groucho, he asserts that Margaret Dumont never figured out that she was a foil, and that she really didn't have a clue what was happening.

[@texasmimi5566]

I have learned not to believe everything Groucho says/remembers. Too many years had gone by and many people gone when he was back in the limelight. He could say/remember anything he wanted without being contradicted.

[@extradimensional8818]

😵😬🤐

[@markwinsor446]

I've heard from several sources,(Dick Cavett, etc.) that Margaret Dumont really didn't find them funny in the least.....

[@sven8957]

The primary source for that is Groucho's claim that she asked him what are they laughing at. It's possible that she may not have understood a double entendre or two, but it's also obviously clear from what she has said and from their live performance that she generally appreciated the humor.

[@Penfold8]

What is that thing at :40?

[@premanadi]

I think the official word for it would be a truncheon or a blackjack. A weapon for beating people, usually carried by cops but a criminal could have one.

[@texasmimi5566]

It's a blackjack. They make reference to it as well in the movie scene "the flash" when Harpo is emptying out his pockets looking for a flashlight. It was a weapon used back in their day.

[@biggusdickus5986]

Or a sap

[@jamesnash6101]

"Females, how do you want to play? Honest"? Mgtow

[@petelarosa282]

CHRIST is the only way to heaven and it is 🙏 by faith.

[@texasmimi5566]

Yes, you are correct. Why are you writing this in a Marx Bros. video?

[@biggusdickus5986]

Christ is everywhere, why not this site, l bet he would have liked the Marx Brothers.