The Big Parade of Comedy

Directed by Robert Youngson
1964    90m    Approved
Comedy, Documentary
5.8
"The Big Parade of Comedy" is a delightful anthology of MGM's finest comedic moments, blending hilarious scenes from silent classics to 1948’s "A Southern Yankee." Enjoy timeless gems like "The Thin Man" and "A Night at the Opera," celebrating laughter through the ages!
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Cast of The Big Parade of Comedy
  • Clark GableEddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
  • Jean HarlowRuby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
  • Cary GrantAndre Charville (archive footage)
  • Spencer TracyHaggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
  • Katharine HepburnTracy Lord (archive footage)
  • W.C. FieldsWilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
  • Stan LaurelStan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
  • Oliver HardyOliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
  • William PowellNick Charles (archive footage)
  • Myrna LoyNora Charles (archive footage)
  • Lucille BallJulie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)
  • Red SkeltonAubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)
  • Robert TaylorRaymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
  • Greta GarboNinotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)
  • Joan CrawfordBobby (archive footage)
  • Marie DresslerMarie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)
  • Wallace BeeryTerry (archive footage)
  • Bud AbbottDoc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
  • Lou CostelloWishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)
  • Carole LombardMary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
  • Buster KeatonBuster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
  • Ted HealyReporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
  • Franchot ToneGifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
  • Melvyn DouglasLeon (archive footage)
  • Robert BenchleyJoseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)
  • Marion DaviesTina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
  • Lee TracySpace in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
  • Polly MoranSarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
  • Gail PatrickIsobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
  • Lewis StoneBaron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
  • Bert LahrThe Commander (archive footage)
  • Nat PendletonWilliam T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
  • Chester MorrisJimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
  • Lupe VélezSelf in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
  • Freddie BartholomewDavid Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
  • Zasu PittsMirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
  • Karl DaneSharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
  • George K. ArthurBellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)
  • Leo CarrilloJoselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage)
  • SkippyAsta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)
  • Dave O'BrienActor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
  • James FinlaysonSergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)
  • Les TremayneNarrator (voice)
  • Elizabeth AllanMrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
  • Robert BarratBaxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jack BaxleyActor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Monta BellSelf - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
  • Lionel BelmoreBlacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Tod BrowningSelf - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Dorothy BurgessGypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Richard CarleActor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • John CarrollTerry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Nora CecilActress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Charlie ChaplinActor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • E. E. CliveCosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
  • Louise Closser HaleHattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
  • Lew CodyTip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
  • Elisha Cook Jr.Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jeff CoreySergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Josephine CrowellCss van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
  • Frank DawsonButler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Marceline DayLois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Edgar DearingBill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Brian DonlevyKurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
  • Douglas FairbanksActor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Larry FineOne of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Willie FungWillie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • John GilbertActor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Ferdinand GottschalkActor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Charley GrapewinMr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Harry GribbonCop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • William HainesActor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Winifred HarrisActress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Phillips HolmesErnest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
  • Curly HowardOne of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Moe HowardOne of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • John IrelandCaptain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
  • Leatrice JoyActress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Walter Woolf KingBeecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Diana LewisEve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Edmund LoweDr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
  • Chico MarxOne of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Groucho MarxOne of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Harpo MarxOne of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Grant MitchellEd Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Owen MooreDennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Karen MorleyLucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jack NortonActor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Anita PageVivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Barnett ParkerArthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
  • Herbert PriorActor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jed ProutyActor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Tom RickettsButler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Bert RoachFoster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • George TobiasActor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Billy WayneFireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Huey WhiteActor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Peter WhitneyJake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Charles WilliamsActor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Clarence WilsonActor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Tammany YoungShif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited)
 
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