The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Laughs of a lifetime... with 50 fabulous stars!

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

Cast (101)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Clark Gable

Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Cary Grant

Andre Charville (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

Tracy Lord (archive footage)

W.C. Fields

Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Stan Laurel

Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

William Powell

Nick Charles (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

Nora Charles (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)

Red Skelton

Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage)

Robert Taylor

Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

Bobby (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Terry (archive footage)

Bud Abbott

Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Lou Costello

Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)

Ted Healy

Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

Leon (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage)

Marion Davies

Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

Lee Tracy

Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Polly Moran

Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

Gail Patrick

Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)

Bert Lahr

The Commander (archive footage)

Nat Pendleton

William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Chester Morris

Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Lupe Vélez

Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Freddie Bartholomew

David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Zasu Pitts

Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Karl Dane

Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

George K. Arthur

Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)

Leo Carrillo

Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage)

S

Skippy

Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)

Dave O'Brien

Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)

James Finlayson

Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)

Les Tremayne

Narrator (voice)

Elizabeth Allan

Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)

Robert Barrat

Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)

J

Jack Baxley

Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited)

M

Monta Bell

Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Belmore

Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tod Browning

Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dorothy Burgess

Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Carle

Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Carroll

Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nora Cecil

Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin

Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

E. E. Clive

Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)

Louise Closser Hale

Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)

Lew Cody

Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited)

Elisha Cook Jr.

Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jeff Corey

Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Josephine Crowell

Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)

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