The Big Parade of Comedy

Clark Gable

as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as Andre Charville (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

as Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

as Tracy Lord (archive footage)

W.C. Fields

as Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Stan Laurel

as Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

as Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

William Powell

as Nick Charles (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

as Nora Charles (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

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

Red Skelton

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

Robert Taylor

as Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

as Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as Bobby (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

as Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

as Terry (archive footage)

Bud Abbott

as Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Lou Costello

as Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

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

Buster Keaton

as Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)

Ted Healy

as Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

as Leon (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

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

Marion Davies

as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

Lee Tracy

as Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Polly Moran

as Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

Gail Patrick

as Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)

Bert Lahr

as The Commander (archive footage)

Nat Pendleton

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

Chester Morris

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

Lupe Vélez

as Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Freddie Bartholomew

as David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Zasu Pitts

as Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Karl Dane

as Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

George K. Arthur

as Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)

Leo Carrillo

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

Skippy

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

Dave O'Brien

as Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)

James Finlayson

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

Les Tremayne

as Narrator (voice)

Elizabeth Allan

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

Robert Barrat

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

Jack Baxley

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

Monta Bell

as Self - Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (arch. footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Belmore

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

Tod Browning

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

Dorothy Burgess

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

Richard Carle

as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Carroll

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

Nora Cecil

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

E. E. Clive

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

Louise Closser Hale

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

Lew Cody

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

Elisha Cook Jr.

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

Jeff Corey

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

Josephine Crowell

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

Frank Dawson

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

Marceline Day

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

Edgar Dearing

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

Brian Donlevy

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

Douglas Fairbanks

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

Larry Fine

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

Willie Fung

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

John Gilbert

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

Ferdinand Gottschalk

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

Charley Grapewin

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

Harry Gribbon

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

William Haines

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

Winifred Harris

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

Phillips Holmes

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

Curly Howard

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

Moe Howard

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

John Ireland

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

Leatrice Joy

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

Walter Woolf King

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

Diana Lewis

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

Edmund Lowe

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

Chico Marx

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

Groucho Marx

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

Harpo Marx

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

Grant Mitchell

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

Owen Moore

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

Karen Morley

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

Jack Norton

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

Anita Page

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

Barnett Parker

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

Herbert Prior

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

Jed Prouty

as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tom Ricketts

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

Bert Roach

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

George Tobias

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

Billy Wayne

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

Huey White

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

Peter Whitney

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

Charles Williams

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

Clarence Wilson

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

Tammany Young

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