Cast
Laverne Andrews
Self (archive footage)
Maxene Andrews
Self (archive footage)
Patty Andrews
Self (archive footage)
Fred Astaire
Self (archive footage)
Warner Baxter
Self (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
(1885–1949)
Self (archive footage)
Brooks Benedict
Self (archive footage)
Constance Bennett
Self (archive footage)
Jack Benny
Self (archive footage)
Busby Berkeley
Self (archive footage)
Irving Berlin
Self (archive footage)
Willie Best
Self (archive footage)
Herman Bing
(1889–1947)
Self (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Fanny Brice
(1891–1951)
Self (archive footage)
Joe E. Brown
Self (archive footage)
James Burke
Self (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (archive footage)
Eddie Cantor
Self (archive footage)
Hobart Cavanaugh
Self (archive footage)
George Chandler
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Charters
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Mae Clarke
Self (archive footage)
Betty Compson
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
(I)
(1905–1977)
Self (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
(1903–1977)
Self (archive footage)
Frankie Darro
Self (archive footage)
William B. Davidson
Self (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
(1901–1966)
Self (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Dumont
Self (archive footage)
James Dunn
Self (archive footage)
Irene Dunne
(1898–1990)
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
Self (archive footage)
Nelson Eddy
Self (archive footage)
Cliff Edwards
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Bill Elliott
Self (archive footage)
Madge Evans
Self (archive footage)
Alice Faye
Self (archive footage)
Stepin Fetchit
Self (archive footage)
W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)
Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage)
Dick Foran
Self (archive footage)
Gerald Ford
Self (archive footage)
Preston Foster
Self (archive footage)
Kay Francis
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
(I)
(1901–1960)
Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland
Self (archive footage)
Janet Gaynor
(I)
(1906–1984)
Self (archive footage)
George Gershwin
Self (archive footage)
Benny Goodman
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
Woody Guthrie
Self (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
George ‘Gabby’ Hayes
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Billie Holiday
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope
Self (archive footage)
William Hopper
Self (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Self (archive footage)
Boris Karloff
Self (archive footage)
Ruby Keeler
Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Fiorello LaGuardia
Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
Self (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
Self (archive footage)
Gypsy Rose Lee
Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh
Self (archive footage)
Carole Lombard
Self (archive footage)
Joe Louis
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
(1905–1993)
Self (archive footage)
Bela Lugosi
Self (archive footage)
Douglas MacArthur
Self (archive footage)
Jeanette MacDonald
Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Chico Marx
Self (archive footage)
Groucho Marx
Self (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
Self (archive footage)
Ethel Merman
Self (archive footage)
Grant Mitchell
(I)
(1874–1957)
Self (archive footage)
Paul Muni
(I)
(1895–1967)
Self (archive footage)
Harold Nicholas
Self (archive footage)
Fayard Nicholas
Self (archive footage)
Pat Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Jesse Owens
Self (archive footage)
Dick Powell
Self (archive footage)
Writing
Philippe Mora
Writer
Crew
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Thanks
Production
David Puttnam
Producer
Sanford Lieberson
Producer
Editing
Jeremy Thomas
Editor