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

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