The Big Parade of Comedy
Robert Youngson1964-09-02
Laughs of a lifetime... with 50 fabulous stars!
6.3
90 min
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Cast
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Clark Gable | Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jean Harlow | Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Cary Grant | Andre Charville (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Spencer Tracy | Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Katharine Hepburn | Tracy Lord (archive footage) | Unowned |
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W.C. Fields | Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Stan Laurel | Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Oliver Hardy | Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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William Powell | Nick Charles (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Myrna Loy | Nora Charles (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lucille Ball | Julie Hampton in 'Meet the People' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Red Skelton | Aubrey Filmore in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robert Taylor | Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Greta Garbo | Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Joan Crawford | Bobby (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Marie Dressler | Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Wallace Beery | Terry (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bud Abbott | Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lou Costello | Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Carole Lombard | Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Buster Keaton | Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ted Healy | Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Franchot Tone | Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Melvyn Douglas | Leon (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robert Benchley | Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Marion Davies | Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lee Tracy | Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Polly Moran | Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Gail Patrick | Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lewis Stone | Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bert Lahr | The Commander (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nat Pendleton | William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Chester Morris | Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lupe Vélez | Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Freddie Bartholomew | David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Zasu Pitts | Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Karl Dane | Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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George K. Arthur | Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Leo Carrillo | Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Skippy | Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dave O'Brien | Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage) | Unowned |
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James Finlayson | Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Les Tremayne | Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Elizabeth Allan | Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Unowned |
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Robert Barrat | Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jack Baxley | Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Monta Bell | Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Lionel Belmore | Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Tod Browning | Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Dorothy Burgess | Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Richard Carle | Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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John Carroll | Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Nora Cecil | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Charlie Chaplin | Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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E. E. Clive | Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Unowned |
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Louise Closser Hale | Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Lew Cody | Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Elisha Cook Jr. | Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jeff Corey | Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Josephine Crowell | Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Unowned |
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Frank Dawson | Butler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Marceline Day | Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Edgar Dearing | Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Brian Donlevy | Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Douglas Fairbanks | Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Larry Fine | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Willie Fung | Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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John Gilbert | Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Ferdinand Gottschalk | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Charley Grapewin | Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Harry Gribbon | Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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William Haines | Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Winifred Harris | Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Phillips Holmes | Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Curly Howard | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Moe Howard | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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John Ireland | Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Unowned |
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Leatrice Joy | Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Walter Woolf King | Beecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Diana Lewis | Eve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Edmund Lowe | Dr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Chico Marx | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Groucho Marx | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Harpo Marx | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Grant Mitchell | Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Owen Moore | Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Karen Morley | Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jack Norton | Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Anita Page | Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Barnett Parker | Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Unowned |
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Herbert Prior | Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jed Prouty | Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Tom Ricketts | Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Bert Roach | Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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George Tobias | Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Billy Wayne | Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Huey White | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Peter Whitney | Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Charles Williams | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Clarence Wilson | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Tammany Young | Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned |