Duck Soup

Plot

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

  • Leo McCarey

    Director

  • Harry Ruby

    Writer

  • Bert Kalmar

    Writer

  • Nat Perrin

    Writer

  • Arthur Sheekman

    Writer

  • Bert Kalmar

    Lyricist

  • Bert Kalmar

    Story

  • Harry Ruby

    Story

  • Harry Ruby

    Lyricist

  • Henry Sharp

    Director of Photography

  • LeRoy Stone

    Editor

  • Groucho Marx

    Rufus T. Firefly

  • Harpo Marx

    Pinky

  • Chico Marx

    Chicolini

  • Zeppo Marx

    Bob Roland

  • Margaret Dumont

    Gloria Teasdale

  • Raquel Torres

    Vera Marcal

  • Louis Calhern

    Ambassador Trentino

  • Edmund Breese

    Zander

  • Leonid Kinskey

    Sylvanian Agitator

  • Charles Middleton

    Prosecutor

  • Edgar Kennedy

    Street Vendor

  • Edward Arnold

    Politician (uncredited)

  • Wade Boteler

    Officer at Battle Headquarters (uncredited)

  • Sidney Bracey

    Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)

  • E.H. Calvert

    Officer in Battle Sequence (uncredited)

  • Davison Clark

    Minister of Finance #2 (uncredited)

  • Louise Closser Hale

    Reception Guest (uncredited)

  • Carrie Daumery

    Reception Guest (uncredited)

  • Maude Turner Gordon

    Reception Guest (uncredited)

  • Florence Wix

    Reception Guest (uncredited)

  • Joseph Crehan

    Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)

  • Mario Dominici

    Minister (uncredited)

  • Edmund Mortimer

    Minister (uncredited)

  • Charles West

    Minister (uncredited)

  • Verna Hillie

    Trentino's Blonde Secretary (uncredited)

  • Edward LeSaint

    Secretary of Labor (uncredited)

  • George MacQuarrie

    First Judge (uncredited)

  • Frederick Sullivan

    Second Judge (uncredited)

  • Eric Mayne

    Third Judge (uncredited)

  • Edwin Maxwell

    Freedonia's Secretary of War #1 (uncredited)

  • Dennis O'Keefe

    Bridegroom at Firefly's Reception (uncredited)

  • Leo Sulky

    Agitator (uncredited)

  • Dale Van Sickel

    A Palace Guard (uncredited)

  • William Worthington

    First Minister of Finance (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    69 minutes

    Released

    1933-11-12

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Paramount Pictures

    Sound

  • Bert Kalmar

    Music

  • Harry Ruby

    Music

  • John Leipold

    Original Music Composer

  • Arthur Johnston

    Music

  • Updated

    40 days ago

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