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