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
Leonid Kinskey
Sylvanian Agitator
Charles Middleton
Prosecutor
Louise Closser Hale
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Charles West
Minister (uncredited)
Harpo Marx
Pinky
Edward LeSaint
Secretary of Labor (uncredited)
George MacQuarrie
First Judge (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Third Judge (uncredited)
Margaret Dumont
Gloria Teasdale
Carrie Daumery
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Groucho Marx
Rufus T. Firefly
Edgar Kennedy
Street Vendor
Edward Arnold
Politician (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Minister of Finance #2 (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
Freedonia's Secretary of War #1 (uncredited)
William Worthington
First Minister of Finance (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Officer at Battle Headquarters (uncredited)
Maude Turner Gordon
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Verna Hillie
Trentino's Blonde Secretary (uncredited)
Zeppo Marx
Bob Roland
Raquel Torres
Vera Marcal
Sidney Bracey
Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
Louis Calhern
Ambassador Trentino
E.H. Calvert
Officer in Battle Sequence (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
Frederick Sullivan
Second Judge (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Bridegroom at Firefly's Reception (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
A Palace Guard (uncredited)
Chico Marx
Chicolini
Edmund Breese
Zander
Florence Wix
Reception Guest (uncredited)