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