The Big Parade of Comedy

Clark Gable

Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Acting

Jean Harlow

Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Acting

Cary Grant

Andre Charville (archive footage)

Acting

Spencer Tracy

Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)

Acting

Katharine Hepburn

Tracy Lord (archive footage)

Acting

W.C. Fields

Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Acting

Stan Laurel

Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Acting

Oliver Hardy

Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Acting

William Powell

Nick Charles (archive footage)

Acting

Myrna Loy

Nora Charles (archive footage)

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Lucille Ball

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

Acting

Red Skelton

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

Acting

Robert Taylor

Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)

Acting

Greta Garbo

Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)

Acting

Joan Crawford

Bobby (archive footage)

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Marie Dressler

Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)

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Wallace Beery

Terry (archive footage)

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Bud Abbott

Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

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Lou Costello

Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Acting

Carole Lombard

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

Acting

Buster Keaton

Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)

Directing

Ted Healy

Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Acting

Franchot Tone

Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Acting

Melvyn Douglas

Leon (archive footage)

Acting

Robert Benchley

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

Acting

Marion Davies

Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

Acting

Lee Tracy

Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Acting

Polly Moran

Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

Acting

Gail Patrick

Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)

Acting

Lewis Stone

Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)

Acting

Bert Lahr

The Commander (archive footage)

Acting

Nat Pendleton

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

Acting

Chester Morris

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

Acting

Lupe Vélez

Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Acting

Freddie Bartholomew

David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Acting

Zasu Pitts

Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Acting

Karl Dane

Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

Acting

George K. Arthur

Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)

Acting

Leo Carrillo

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

Acting

Skippy

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

Acting

Dave O'Brien

Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)

Acting

James Finlayson

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

Acting

Les Tremayne

Narrator (voice)

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Elizabeth Allan

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

Acting

Robert Barrat

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

Acting

Lionel Belmore

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

Acting

Tod Browning

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

Directing

Dorothy Burgess

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

Acting

Richard Carle

Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

John Carroll

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

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Nora Cecil

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

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Charlie Chaplin

Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

E. E. Clive

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

Acting

Louise Closser Hale

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

Acting

Lew Cody

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

Acting

Elisha Cook Jr.

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

Acting

Jeff Corey

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

Acting

Josephine Crowell

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

Acting

Marceline Day

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

Acting

Edgar Dearing

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

Acting

Brian Donlevy

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

Acting

Douglas Fairbanks

Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Larry Fine

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

Acting

Willie Fung

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

Acting

John Gilbert

Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Ferdinand Gottschalk

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

Acting

Charley Grapewin

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

Acting

Harry Gribbon

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

Acting

William Haines

Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Winifred Harris

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

Acting

Phillips Holmes

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

Acting

Curly Howard

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

Acting

Moe Howard

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

Acting

John Ireland

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

Acting

Leatrice Joy

Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Walter Woolf King

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

Acting

Diana Lewis

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

Acting

Edmund Lowe

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

Acting

Chico Marx

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

Acting

Groucho Marx

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

Acting

Harpo Marx

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

Acting

Grant Mitchell

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

Acting

Owen Moore

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

Acting

Karen Morley

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

Acting

Jack Norton

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

Acting

Anita Page

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

Acting

Barnett Parker

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

Acting

Herbert Prior

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

Acting

Jed Prouty

Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

Tom Ricketts

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

Acting

Bert Roach

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

Acting

George Tobias

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

Acting

Billy Wayne

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

Acting

Peter Whitney

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

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Charles Williams

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

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Clarence Wilson

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

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Tammany Young

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

Acting