The Big Parade of Comedy
63 %|Sep 2, 1964|Comedy, Documentary
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Featured Crew
Robert Youngson
Director
Robert Youngson
Writer
Robert Youngson
Producer
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Cast
Clark Gable
Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Andre Charville (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Tracy Lord (archive footage)
W.C. Fields
Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
William Powell
Nick Charles (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
Nora Charles (archive footage)
Lucille Ball
Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)
Red Skelton
Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
Robert Taylor
Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
Bobby (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
Terry (archive footage)
Bud Abbott
Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
Lou Costello
Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
Carole Lombard
Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Buster Keaton
Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
Ted Healy
Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas
Leon (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)
Marion Davies
Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Lee Tracy
Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
Polly Moran
Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
Gail Patrick
Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
Lewis Stone
Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
Bert Lahr
The Commander (archive footage)
Nat Pendleton
William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Chester Morris
Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Lupe Vélez
Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Freddie Bartholomew
David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
Zasu Pitts
Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Karl Dane
Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
George K. Arthur
Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)
Leo Carrillo
Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage)
Skippy
Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)
Dave O'Brien
Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
James Finlayson
Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)
Les Tremayne
Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth Allan
Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Robert Barrat
Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Monta Bell
Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tod Browning
Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dorothy Burgess
Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Carroll
Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin
Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
E. E. Clive
Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Louise Closser Hale
Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Lew Cody
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Elisha Cook Jr.
Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeff Corey
Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Josephine Crowell
Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Frank Dawson
Butler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marceline Day
Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks
Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
Larry Fine
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willie Fung
Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Gilbert
Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Gribbon
Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Haines
Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winifred Harris
Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Phillips Holmes
Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Curly Howard
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moe Howard
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Ireland
Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Leatrice Joy
Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Woolf King
Beecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Diana Lewis
Eve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edmund Lowe
Dr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Chico Marx
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Groucho Marx
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harpo Marx
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Owen Moore
Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Karen Morley
Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Norton
Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anita Page
Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barnett Parker
Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Herbert Prior
Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jed Prouty
Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bert Roach
Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Tobias
Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Huey White
Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Whitney
Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Williams
Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clarence Wilson
Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tammany Young
Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited)