Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Acting
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Acting
Harold Miller
Audience Member (uncredited)
Acting
Edwin Tuttle
Audience Member (uncredited)
Acting
Giovanni Martinelli
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
Acting
George Arliss
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Acting
John Barrymore
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Acting
Eugenie Besserer
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Acting
James Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Acting
Jeanne Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Acting
Gary Cooper
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Acting
Bette Davis
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Acting
Rosemary DeCamp
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Acting
Robert Elliott
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Acting
Walter Huston
Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Acting
Josephine Hutchinson
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Acting
Al Jolson
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Acting
Cullen Landis
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Acting
Joan Leslie
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Acting
Paul Muni
Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Acting
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Eugene Pallette
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Acting
Stanley Ridges
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Acting
Franchot Tone
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Acting
David Torrence
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Acting
Harry M. Warner
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Jack L. Warner
Self (archive footage)
Production
Ethel Waters
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Acting