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