The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
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."
Direction Robert Youngson
Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant · Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · W.C. Fields · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Lucille Ball · Red Skelton · Robert Taylor · Joan Crawford · Marie Dressler · Wallace Beery · Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Carole Lombard · Jimmy Durante · Buster Keaton · Ted Healy · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Benchley · Marion Davies · Lee Tracy · Polly Moran · Gail Patrick · Lewis Stone · Bert Lahr · Nat Pendleton · Chester Morris · Lupe Velez · Freddie Bartholomew · ZaSu Pitts · Karl Dane · George K. Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Dave O'Brien · James Finlayson · Elizabeth Allan · Robert Barrat · Jack Baxley · Monta Bell · Tod Browning · Dorothy Burgess · Richard Carle · John Carroll · Nora Cecil · Charles Chaplin · E.E. Clive · Louise Closser Hale · Lew Cody · Elisha Cook Jr. · Jeff Corey · Josephine Crowell · Frank Dawson · Marceline Day · Edgar Dearing · Brian Donlevy · Douglas Fairbanks · Larry Fine · Willie Fung · John Gilbert · Ferdinand Gottschalk · Charley Grapewin · Harry Gribbon · William Haines · Winifred Harris · Phillips Holmes · Curly Howard · Moe Howard · John Ireland · Leatrice Joy · Walter Woolf King · Diana Lewis · Edmund Lowe · Chico Marx · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Grant Mitchell · Owen Moore · Karen Morley · Jack Norton · Anita Page · Barnett Parker · Herbert Prior · Jed Prouty · Tom Ricketts · Bert Roach · George Tobias · Billy Wayne · Huey White · Peter Whitney · Charles Williams · Clarence Wilson · Tammany Young
Soundtrack Bernard Green
Screenplay Robert Youngson
Original title The Big Parade of Comedy
Also known as MGM's Big Parade of Comedy
6.5
24 votes (FilmAffinity)
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