The Big Parade of Comedy(1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Charmant, dieser Johnny Eager! Aber hinter der Fassade des braven Taxifahrers lauert ein Gangster mit dunklen Absichten. Johnny ist nur auf Bewährung entlassen und will sich an seinem größten Feind rächen, dem Staatsanwalt . Dafür wickelt Johnny dessen hübsche Stieftochter Lisbeth um den Finger. Er verstrickt sie in ein Komplott, bis sie glaubt, einen Mann erschossen zu haben….
Die Eiskunstläuferin Frances Marlowe und ihr Manager Dan Morton werden in ihrem Wagen auf dem Weg nach New York von einem LKW gerammt und von der Straße geschleudert. Zufällig treffen kurz danach der junge Arzt Dr. James Kildare und seine Verlobte, die Krankenschwester Mary Lamont, in einem Auto, das die Stationsschwester Molly Byrd ihnen geliehen hat, am Unfallort ein und versorgen die Verletzten...
S. Quentin Quale will in den Wilden Westen ziehen, wo er sein Glück beim Goldrausch machen will. Doch am Ankunftsbahnhof ziehen im die Kleinganoven Joe und Rusty bereits fast seine gesamte Barschaft aus den Taschen.
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price -- by dancing and juggling!
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Nachdem er etwas Geld geerbt hat, beschließt Harold Bissonette, sein Lebensmittelgeschäft aufzugeben, nach Kalifornien zu ziehen und einen Orangenhain zu betreiben. Trotz der Einwände seiner Familie und der Nachricht, dass das Land, das er gekauft hat, wertlos ist, packt Bissonette zusammen und fährt mit seiner nörgelnden Frau Amelia und den Kindern nach Kalifornien...