The Big Parade of Comedy
Comedy | Documentary
6.3
Release Date
September 2, 1964
Duration
90 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Casts
Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Andre Charville (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Tracy Lord (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
W.C. Fields
Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Nick Charles (archive footage)
William Powell
Nora Charles (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)
Lucille Ball
Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
Red Skelton
Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
Robert Taylor
Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
Bobby (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Terry (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
Bud Abbott
Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
Lou Costello
Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Carole Lombard
Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
Buster Keaton
Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Ted Healy
Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
Leon (archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas
Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)
Robert Benchley
Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Marion Davies
Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
Lee Tracy
Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
Polly Moran
Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
Gail Patrick
Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
Lewis Stone
The Commander (archive footage)
Bert Lahr
William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Nat Pendleton
Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Chester Morris
Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Lupe Vélez
David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
Freddie Bartholomew
Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Zasu Pitts
Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
Karl Dane
Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)
George K. Arthur
Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage)
Leo Carrillo
Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)
Skippy
Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
Dave O'Brien
Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)
James Finlayson
Narrator (voice)
Les Tremayne
Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Elizabeth Allan
Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Barrat
Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Monta Bell
Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tod Browning
Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dorothy Burgess
Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Carroll
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin
Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
E. E. Clive
Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Louise Closser Hale
Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Lew Cody
Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elisha Cook Jr.
Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeff Corey
Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Josephine Crowell
Butler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Dawson
Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marceline Day
Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy
Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Larry Fine
Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willie Fung
Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Gilbert
Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Gribbon
Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Haines
Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winifred Harris
Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Phillips Holmes
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Curly Howard
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moe Howard
Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
John Ireland
Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leatrice Joy
Beecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Woolf King
Eve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Diana Lewis
Dr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Edmund Lowe
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chico Marx
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Groucho Marx
One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harpo Marx
Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Owen Moore
Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Karen Morley
Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Norton
Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anita Page
Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Barnett Parker
Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Herbert Prior
Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jed Prouty
Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bert Roach
Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Tobias
Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Huey White
Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Whitney
Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Williams
Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clarence Wilson
Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tammany Young
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