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