La Grande Parade du rire

Myrna Loy

Nora Charles (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

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

Red Skelton

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

Robert Taylor

Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

Bobby in 'Pretty Ladies' (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

Marie Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Terry Brennan in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage)

Bud Abbott

Doc in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Lou Costello

Wishy in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

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

Jimmy Durante

Himself in 'Hollywood Party' Trailer (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)

Ted Healy

Reporter in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

The Three Stooges

Actors in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Oliver Jordan in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

Leon (archive footage)

Robert Benchley

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

Marion Davies

Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

Lee Tracy

Space in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)

Polly Moran

Sarah in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

Gail Patrick

Isobel Grayson in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)

Bert Lahr

Commander in 'Meet the People' (archive footage)

Nat Pendleton

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

Chester Morris

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

Lupe Velez

Herself in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

Freddie Bartholomew

David Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Zasu Pitts

Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)

Karl Dane

Sharkey Nye in 'China Bound' (archive footage)

George K. Arthur

Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)

Leo Carrillo

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

Asta

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

Dave O'Brien

Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)

James Finlayson

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

Les Tremayne

Narratrice (VO)

Elizabeth Allan

Mrs. Copperfield in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)

Robert Barrat

Baxter in 'Go West' (archive footage)

Jack Baxley

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

Groucho Marx

Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage)

Chico Marx

Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage)

Zeppo Marx

Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage)