The Big Parade of Comedy
Genres: Comedy, Documentary
Rating: 6.3 ★★★★★★★★★★6.3
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Movie Info
Summary
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Release Date
02 Sept 1964
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries
United States of America
Cast
Clark Gable
Playing: Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)Jean Harlow
Playing: Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)Cary Grant
Playing: Andre Charville (archive footage)Spencer Tracy
Playing: Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)Katharine Hepburn
Playing: Tracy Lord (archive footage)W.C. Fields
Playing: Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)Stan Laurel
Playing: Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)Oliver Hardy
Playing: Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)William Powell
Playing: Nick Charles (archive footage)Myrna Loy
Playing: Nora Charles (archive footage)Lucille Ball
Playing: Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)Red Skelton
Playing: Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)Robert Taylor
Playing: Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)Greta Garbo
Playing: Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)Joan Crawford
Playing: Bobby (archive footage)Marie Dressler
Playing: Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)Wallace Beery
Playing: Terry (archive footage)Bud Abbott
Playing: Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)Lou Costello
Playing: Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)Carole Lombard
Playing: Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)Buster Keaton
Playing: Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)Ted Healy
Playing: Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)Franchot Tone
Playing: Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)Melvyn Douglas
Playing: Leon (archive footage)Robert Benchley
Playing: Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)Marion Davies
Playing: Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)Lee Tracy
Playing: Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)Polly Moran
Playing: Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)Gail Patrick
Playing: Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)Lewis Stone
Playing: Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)Bert Lahr
Playing: The Commander (archive footage)Nat Pendleton
Playing: William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)Chester Morris
Playing: Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)Lupe Vélez
Playing: Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)Freddie Bartholomew
Playing: David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)Zasu Pitts
Playing: Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)Karl Dane
Playing: Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)George K. Arthur
Playing: Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)Leo Carrillo
Playing: Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage)Skippy
Playing: Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)Dave O'Brien
Playing: Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)James Finlayson
Playing: Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)Les Tremayne
Playing: Narrator (voice)Elizabeth Allan
Playing: Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)Robert Barrat
Playing: Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Jack Baxley
Playing: Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited)No image available
Monta Bell
Playing: Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)No image available
Lionel Belmore
Playing: Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited)Tod Browning
Playing: Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited)Dorothy Burgess
Playing: Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Richard Carle
Playing: Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)John Carroll
Playing: Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Nora Cecil
Playing: Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)Charlie Chaplin
Playing: Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)E. E. Clive
Playing: Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)Louise Closser Hale
Playing: Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)Lew Cody
Playing: Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)Elisha Cook Jr.
Playing: Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)Jeff Corey
Playing: Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited)Josephine Crowell
Playing: Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)Frank Dawson
Playing: Butler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited)No image available
Marceline Day
Playing: Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited)Edgar Dearing
Playing: Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Brian Donlevy
Playing: Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)Douglas Fairbanks
Playing: Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)Larry Fine
Playing: One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)Willie Fung
Playing: Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited)John Gilbert
Playing: Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)Ferdinand Gottschalk
Playing: Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)Charley Grapewin
Playing: Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)Harry Gribbon
Playing: Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)William Haines
Playing: Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)Winifred Harris
Playing: Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)Phillips Holmes
Playing: Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)Curly Howard
Playing: One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)Moe Howard
Playing: One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)John Ireland
Playing: Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)Leatrice Joy
Playing: Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)Walter Woolf King
Playing: Beecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Diana Lewis
Playing: Eve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Edmund Lowe
Playing: Dr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)Chico Marx
Playing: One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)Groucho Marx
Playing: One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)Harpo Marx
Playing: One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)Grant Mitchell
Playing: Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)Owen Moore
Playing: Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited)Karen Morley
Playing: Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)Jack Norton
Playing: Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited)Anita Page
Playing: Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)Barnett Parker
Playing: Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)Herbert Prior
Playing: Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)Jed Prouty
Playing: Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)Tom Ricketts
Playing: Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Bert Roach
Playing: Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)George Tobias
Playing: Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)Billy Wayne
Playing: Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)Huey White
Playing: Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)No image available
Peter Whitney
Playing: Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited)Charles Williams
Playing: Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Clarence Wilson
Playing: Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)Tammany Young
Playing: Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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