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