The Big Parade of Comedy

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

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

Comedy Documentary

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))

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))

Jack Baxley

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

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.))

Frank Dawson

(Butler in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Marceline Day

(Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Edgar Dearing

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

Brian Donlevy

(Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited))

Douglas Fairbanks

(Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited))

Larry Fine

(One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited))

Willie Fung

(Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited))

John Gilbert

(Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited))

Ferdinand Gottschalk

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

Charley Grapewin

(Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harry Gribbon

(Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited))

William Haines

(Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited))

Winifred Harris

(Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Phillips Holmes

(Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited))

Curly Howard

(One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited))

Moe Howard

(One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited))

John Ireland

(Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.))

Leatrice Joy

(Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited))

Walter Woolf King

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

Diana Lewis

(Eve Wilson in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Edmund Lowe

(Dr. Wayne Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. foot.) (uncredited))

Chico Marx

(One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited))

Groucho Marx

(One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harpo Marx

(One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited))

Grant Mitchell

(Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Owen Moore

(Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Karen Morley

(Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Jack Norton

(Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Anita Page

(Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Barnett Parker

(Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.))

Herbert Prior

(Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Jed Prouty

(Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited))

Tom Ricketts

(Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Bert Roach

(Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited))

George Tobias

(Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Billy Wayne

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

Huey White

(Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Peter Whitney

(Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Charles Williams

(Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited))

Clarence Wilson

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

Tammany Young

(Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited))