The Big Parade of Comedy - Cast

Clark Gable

Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
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Jean Harlow

Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
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Cary Grant

Andre Charville (archive footage)
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Spencer Tracy

Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)
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Katharine Hepburn

Tracy Lord (archive footage)
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W.C. Fields

Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
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Stan Laurel

Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
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Oliver Hardy

Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
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William Powell

Nick Charles (archive footage)
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Myrna Loy

Nora Charles (archive footage)
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Lucille Ball

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

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

Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
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Greta Garbo

Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)
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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)
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Carole Lombard

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

Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
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Ted Healy

Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
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Franchot Tone

Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
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Melvyn Douglas

Leon (archive footage)
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Robert Benchley

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

Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
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Lee Tracy

Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
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Polly Moran

Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
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Gail Patrick

Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)
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Lewis Stone

Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
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Bert Lahr

The Commander (archive footage)
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Nat Pendleton

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

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

Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
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Freddie Bartholomew

David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
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Zasu Pitts

Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
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Karl Dane

Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)
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George K. Arthur

Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)
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Leo Carrillo

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

Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage)
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Dave O'Brien

Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
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James Finlayson

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

Narrator (voice)
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Elizabeth Allan

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

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

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

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

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

Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
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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)
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E. E. Clive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Walter Woolf King

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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