The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy

90 mins | Comedy, Documentary | Sept. 2, 1964

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

The Big Parade of Comedy

90 mins | Comedy, Documentary | Sept. 2, 1964

The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Big Parade of Comedy
Directors Robert Youngson
Writers Robert Youngson

Cast

Clark Gable

as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as Cary Grant

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 (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

as (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

as (archive footage)

Bud Abbott

as (archive footage)

Lou Costello

as (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

as (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

as (archive footage)

Ted Healy

as (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

as (archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

as (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

as (archive footage)

Marion Davies

as (archive footage)

Lee Tracy

as (archive footage)

Polly Moran

as (archive footage)

Gail Patrick

as (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

as (archive footage)

Bert Lahr

as (archive footage)

Nat Pendleton

as (archive footage)

Chester Morris

as (archive footage)

Lupe VĂ©lez

as (archive footage)

Freddie Bartholomew

as (archive footage)

Zasu Pitts

as (archive footage)

Karl Dane

as (archive footage)

George K. Arthur

as (archive footage)

Leo Carrillo

as (archive footage)

Skippy

as (archive footage)

Dave O'Brien

as (archive footage)

James Finlayson

as (archive footage)

Les Tremayne

as (archive footage)

Elizabeth Allan

as (archive footage)

Robert Barrat

as (archive footage)

Jack Baxley

as (archive footage)

Monta Bell

as (archive footage)

Lionel Belmore

as (archive footage)

Tod Browning

as (archive footage)

Dorothy Burgess

as (archive footage)

Richard Carle

as (archive footage)

John Carroll

as (archive footage)

Nora Cecil

as (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

as (archive footage)

E. E. Clive

as (archive footage)

Louise Closser Hale

as (archive footage)

Lew Cody

as (archive footage)

Elisha Cook Jr.

as (archive footage)

Jeff Corey

as (archive footage)

Josephine Crowell

as (archive footage)

Frank Dawson

as (archive footage)

Marceline Day

as (archive footage)

Edgar Dearing

as (archive footage)

Brian Donlevy

as (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

as (archive footage)

Larry Fine

as (archive footage)

Willie Fung

as (archive footage)

John Gilbert

as (archive footage)

Ferdinand Gottschalk

as (archive footage)

Charley Grapewin

as (archive footage)

Harry Gribbon

as (archive footage)

William Haines

as (archive footage)

Winifred Harris

as Actress in 'Ninotchka' (uncredited)

Phillips Holmes

as (archive footage)

Curly Howard

as (archive footage)

Moe Howard

as (archive footage)

John Ireland

as (archive footage)

Leatrice Joy

as (archive footage)

Walter Woolf King

as (archive footage)

Diana Lewis

as (archive footage)

Edmund Lowe

as (archive footage)

Chico Marx

as (archive footage)

Groucho Marx

as (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

as (archive footage)

Grant Mitchell

as (archive footage)

Owen Moore

as (archive footage)

Karen Morley

as (archive footage)

Jack Norton

as (archive footage)

Anita Page

as (archive footage)

Barnett Parker

as (archive footage)

Herbert Prior

as (archive footage)

Jed Prouty

as (archive footage)

Tom Ricketts

as (archive footage)

Bert Roach

as (archive footage)

George Tobias

as (archive footage)

Billy Wayne

as (archive footage)

Huey White

as (archive footage)

Peter Whitney

as (archive footage)

Charles Williams

as (archive footage)

Clarence Wilson

as (archive footage)

Tammany Young

as (archive footage)