Robert Q. Lewis
Narrator
Acting
Frederick Lewis Allen
Narrator
Writing
Elmer Davis
Narrator
Acting
Red Barber
Narrator
Acting
Allen Prescott
Narrator
Acting
John Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Irving Berlin
Self (archive footage)
Writing
William Jennings Bryan
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Billie Burke
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Vilma Banky
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Al Capone
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Enrico Caruso
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Irene Castle
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Charlie Chaplin
(archive footage)
Acting
Joseph Conrad
Self (archive footage)
Writing
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Dolores Costello
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Clarence Darrow
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Production
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Acting
George Gershwin
Self (archive footage)
Sound
Texas Guinan
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Warren G. Harding
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Herbert Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Harry Houdini
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Al Jolson
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Harry Lauder
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Pola Negri
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Self (archive footage)
Sound
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Lillian Case Russell
Self (archive footage)
Writing
Babe Ruth
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Gloria Swanson
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Marion Talley
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Rudy Vallee
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Johnny Weissmüller
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Paul Whiteman
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Adolph Zukor
Self (archive footage)
Production