All Cast

Carey Wilson
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)

Emil Jannings
Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)

Warner Baxter
Self (archive footage)

Norma Shearer
Self

George Arliss
Self (archive footage)

Marie Dressler
Self (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)

Helen Hayes
Self (archive footage)

Fredric March
Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton
Self

Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)

Shirley Temple
Self (archive footage)

Irvin S. Cobb
Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis
Self

Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)

Luise Rainer
Self (archive footage)

Paul Muni
Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy
Self

W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)

Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage)

Edgar Bergen
Self (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck
Self

Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)

Deanna Durbin
Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney
Self

Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)

Hal B. Wallis
Self (archive footage)

George Bernard Shaw
Self (archive footage)

James Stewart
Self

Elsa Lanchester
Self

Jean Hersholt
Self

Hedy Lamarr
Self

Gene Markey
Self

Melvyn Douglas
Self

Helen Gahagan
Self

Irving Pichel
Self

Vivien Leigh
Self

David O. Selznick
Self

May Robson
Self

Olivia de Havilland
Self
John Hay Whitney
Self

Louella Parsons
Self
Harry Martin
Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

Hedda Hopper
Self

John Carroll
Self

Jack L. Warner
Self
Harry M. Warner
Self

Ann Rutherford
Self

Virginia Bruce
Self
J. Walter Ruben
Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self

Elsa Maxwell
Self

Laurence Olivier
Self
E.J. Mannix
Self

Judy Garland
Self

George Raft
Self
Walter Wanger
Self

Frank Capra
Self

Robert Donat
Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel
Self

Thomas Mitchell
Self

Fay Bainter
Self

Victor Fleming
Self

Mervyn LeRoy
Self

Sinclair Lewis
Self

Lewis R. Foster
Self
Gordon Hollingshead
Self

Hamilton Luske
Self

Bob Hope
Self - Master of Ceremonies

E.Y. Harburg
Self

Harold Arlen
Self

William Cameron Menzies
Self
Herbert T. Kalmus
Self
Hal C. Kern
Self
James E. Newcom
Self

Ernest Haller
Self
Ray Rennahan
Self
Bernard B. Brown
Self
Fred Sersen
Self
Lyle R. Wheeler
Self
Edmund H. Hansen
Self
