The Big Parade of Comedy

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord (archive footage) Robert Taylor as Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage) Polly Moran as Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage) Chester Morris as Jimmie Burnham in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) Skippy as Asta in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) Stan Laurel as Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) Oliver Hardy as Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) Karl Dane as Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage) Les Tremayne as Narrator (voice) Lionel Belmore as Blacksmith in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited) Brian Donlevy as Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited) Chico Marx as One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) Peter Whitney as Jake in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited) Carole Lombard as Mary Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) Freddie Bartholomew as David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) Moe Howard as One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) James Finlayson as Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) Tod Browning as Self - Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited) W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) William Powell as Nick 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) Lewis Stone as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage) Spencer Tracy as Haggerty in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) Robert Barrat as Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) Richard Carle as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) Bert Lahr as The Commander (archive footage) Elisha Cook Jr. as Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited) Harry Gribbon as Cop in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited) Curly Howard as One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) Harpo Marx as One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) Lee Tracy as Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) Louise Closser Hale as Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited) Marceline Day as Lois in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited) Douglas Fairbanks as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) William Haines as Actor in Theater Lobby (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) Anita Page as Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) Wallace Beery as Terry (archive footage) E. E. Clive as Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) Josephine Crowell as Css van Alstyne in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) Owen Moore as Dennis in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited) Jack Norton as Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited) Jed Prouty as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) Bert Roach as Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) Gail Patrick as Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) Nat Pendleton as William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) John Gilbert as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) Myrna Loy as Nora Charles (archive footage) Buster Keaton as Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) Elizabeth Allan as Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) Larry Fine as One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) Leatrice Joy as Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) Walter Woolf King as Beecher in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) George Tobias as Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) Jean Harlow as Ruby in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) Lupe Vélez as Self in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) Edgar Dearing as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) Charley Grapewin as Mr. Bane in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited) Clarence Wilson as Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) Charlie Chaplin as Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) Cary Grant as Andre Charville (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) Nora Cecil as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) Jeff Corey as Sergeant in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited) Leo Carrillo as Joselito Estanza in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) Dorothy Burgess as Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) Clark Gable as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) Lou Costello as Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) Ferdinand Gottschalk as Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) John Ireland as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) Groucho Marx as One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) Karen Morley as Lucy Talbot in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) Greta Garbo as Ninotchka in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) Zasu Pitts as Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) George K. Arthur as Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage) Winifred Harris as Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) Phillips Holmes as Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited) Grant Mitchell as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) Barnett Parker as Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) Tammany Young as Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited) Joan Crawford as Bobby (archive footage) Dave O'Brien as Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage) John Carroll as Terry Turner in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) Willie Fung as Willie in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited) Herbert Prior as Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) Tom Ricketts as Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) Billy Wayne as Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) Bud Abbott as Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) Ted Healy as Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) Lew Cody as Tip Scanlon in 'The Sporting Venus' (arch. footage) (uncredited) Charles Williams as Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) Marie Dressler as Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)