Carey Wilson
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Writing
Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Emil Jannings
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Warner Baxter
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Norma Shearer
Self
Acting
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Marie Dressler
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Helen Hayes
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Charles Laughton
Self
Acting
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Shirley Temple
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Irvin S. Cobb
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Bette Davis
Self
Acting
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)
Production
Luise Rainer
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Paul Muni
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Spencer Tracy
Self
Acting
W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage)
Production
Edgar Bergen
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Darryl F. Zanuck
Self
Production
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Deanna Durbin
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Mickey Rooney
Self
Acting
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Production
Hal B. Wallis
Self (archive footage)
Production
George Bernard Shaw
Self (archive footage)
Writing
James Stewart
Self
Acting
Elsa Lanchester
Self
Acting
Jean Hersholt
Self
Acting
Hedy Lamarr
Self
Acting
Gene Markey
Self
Writing
Melvyn Douglas
Self
Acting
Helen Gahagan
Self
Acting
Irving Pichel
Self
Acting
Vivien Leigh
Self
Acting
David O. Selznick
Self
Production
May Robson
Self
Acting
Olivia de Havilland
Self
Acting
John Hay Whitney
Self
Acting
Louella Parsons
Self
Acting
Harry Martin
Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)
Acting
Hedda Hopper
Self
Acting
John Carroll
Self
Acting
Jack L. Warner
Self
Production
Harry M. Warner
Self
Acting
Ann Rutherford
Self
Acting
Virginia Bruce
Self
Acting
J. Walter Ruben
Self
Directing
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Acting
Elsa Maxwell
Self
Acting
Laurence Olivier
Self
Acting
E.J. Mannix
Self
Production
Judy Garland
Self
Acting
George Raft
Self
Acting
Walter Wanger
Self
Production
Frank Capra
Self
Directing
Robert Donat
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Hattie McDaniel
Self
Acting
Thomas Mitchell
Self
Acting
Fay Bainter
Self
Acting
Victor Fleming
Self
Directing
Mervyn LeRoy
Self
Directing
Sinclair Lewis
Self
Writing
Lewis R. Foster
Self
Writing
Gordon Hollingshead
Self
Production
Hamilton Luske
Self
Directing
Bob Hope
Self - Master of Ceremonies
Acting
E.Y. Harburg
Self
Writing
Harold Arlen
Self
Sound
William Cameron Menzies
Self
Art
Herbert T. Kalmus
Self
Production
Hal C. Kern
Self
Editing
James E. Newcom
Self
Editing
Ernest Haller
Self
Camera
Ray Rennahan
Self
Camera
Bernard B. Brown
Self
Sound
Fred Sersen
Self
Visual Effects
Lyle R. Wheeler
Self
Art
Edmund H. Hansen
Self
Sound
Herbert Stothart
Self
Sound