The Big Parade of Comedy

Directed by Robert Youngson
Approved
1964    90mComedy, Documentary
5.8
A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man, " "A Night at the Opera, " "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

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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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