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