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