HONOUR FOR LEADING LADY
MARGARET DUMONT AMONG PROMINENT ACTRESSES
Margaret Dumont, Groucho Marx’s leading lady, has been given official recognition as one of America’s 12 outstanding actresses. She was notified on the set of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “A Day at the Circus,” that her name will appear in the 1939-1940 edition of the annual “Who’s Who of American Women” among the few chosen as the outstanding actresses of stage and screen in the United States. The honour was conferred after ballots had been submitted by women’s clubs throughout the country. After congratulating Miss Dumont. Groucho inquired: “How have you been able to remain an actress after watching us for so many years? Now I suppose we will have to make ‘Romeo and Juliet’ together.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24010, 28 December 1939, Page 5
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