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