Directed by
Philippe Mora |
Writing Credits
Philippe Mora | ... | (written by) |
Cast
Laverne Andrews | ... | Laverne Andrews (archive footage) | |
Maxene Andrews | ... | Maxene Andrews (archive footage) | |
Patty Andrews | ... | Patty (archive footage) | |
Fred Astaire | ... | (archive footage) | |
Warner Baxter | ... | (archive footage) | |
Wallace Beery | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Brooks Benedict | ... | (archive footage) | |
Constance Bennett | ... | (archive footage) | |
Jack Benny | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Mr. Benny) | |
Busby Berkeley | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Irving Berlin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Willie Best | ... | (archive footage) | |
Herman Bing | ... | (archive footage) | |
Joan Blondell | ... | (archive footage) | |
Humphrey Bogart | ... | (archive footage) | |
Fanny Brice | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joe E. Brown | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
James Burke | ... | (archive footage) | |
James Cagney | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Cab Calloway | ... | (archive footage) | |
Eddie Cantor | ... | (archive footage) | |
Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | (archive footage) | |
George Chandler | ... | (archive footage) | |
Charles Chaplin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Spencer Charters | ... | (archive footage) | |
Winston Churchill | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mae Clarke | ... | (archive footage) | |
Betty Compson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gary Cooper | ... | (archive footage) | |
Jackie Cooper | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joan Crawford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Bing Crosby | ... | (archive footage) | |
Frankie Darro | ... | (archive footage) | |
William B. Davidson | ... | (archive footage) | |
Cecil B. DeMille | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Marlene Dietrich | ... | (archive footage) | |
John Dillinger | ... | Self - Famous Gangster (archive footage) | |
John Wilson Dillinger | ... | Self - John Dillinger's Father (archive footage) | |
Walt Disney | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Mr. Disney) | |
Marie Dressler | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Tom Dugan | ... | (archive footage) | |
Margaret Dumont | ... | (archive footage) | |
James Dunn | ... | (archive footage) | |
Irene Dunne | ... | 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 | ... | (archive footage) | |
Madge Evans | ... | (archive footage) | |
Alice Faye | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Stepin Fetchit | ... | (archive footage) | |
W.C. Fields | ... | (archive footage) (as Bill) | |
Errol Flynn | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Dick Foran | ... | (archive footage) | |
Gerald Ford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Preston Foster | ... | (archive footage) | |
Kay Francis | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Clark Gable | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Greta Garbo | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Judy Garland | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Janet Gaynor | ... | (archive footage) | |
George Gershwin | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Benny Goodman | ... | (archive footage) | |
Cary Grant | ... | (archive footage) | |
Woody Guthrie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Oliver Hardy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jean Harlow | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
George 'Gabby' Hayes | ... | (archive footage) | |
Katharine Hepburn | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Billie Holiday | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Herbert Hoover | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
J. Edgar Hoover | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Mr. Hoover) | |
Bob Hope | ... | (archive footage) | |
William Hopper | ... | (archive footage) (as DeWolf Hopper Jr.) | |
Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Walter Huston | ... | (archive footage) | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) | |
Al Jolson | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Boris Karloff | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ruby Keeler | ... | (archive footage) | |
Jacqueline Kennedy | ... | (archive footage) | |
John F. Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Fiorello LaGuardia | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Hedy Lamarr | ... | (archive footage) | |
Stan Laurel | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Gypsy Rose Lee | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Vivien Leigh | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Carole Lombard | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Huey Long | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Senator Huey Long) | |
Joe Louis | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Myrna Loy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Bela Lugosi | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Douglas MacArthur | ... | Self (archive footage) (as General Douglas MacArthur) | |
Jeanette MacDonald | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Fredric March | ... | (archive footage) | |
Chico Marx | ... | (archive footage) | |
Groucho Marx | ... | (archive footage) | |
Harpo Marx | ... | (archive footage) | |
Ethel Merman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Grant Mitchell | ... | (archive footage) | |
Paul Muni | ... | (archive footage) | |
Fayard Nicholas | ... | (archive footage) | |
Harold Nicholas | ... | (archive footage) | |
Pat Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jesse Owens | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Dick Powell | ... | (archive footage) | |
Eleanor Powell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
William Powell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Tyrone Power | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
George Raft | ... | (archive footage) | |
Paul Robeson | ... | (archive footage) | |
Dewey Robinson | ... | (archive footage) | |
Edward G. Robinson | ... | (archive footage) | |
Will Rogers | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mickey Rooney | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Eleanor Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt) | |
Elliott Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | |
James Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
John A. Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Cliff Saum | ... | (archive footage) | |
Max Schmeling | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Kate Smith | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
James Stewart | ... | (archive footage) | |
Shirley Temple | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Spencer Tracy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Harry S. Truman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Rudy Vallee | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Ethel Waters | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
John Wayne | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Johnny Weissmuller | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Orson Welles | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Mae West | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Harlow Wilcox | ... | (archive footage) | |
Wendell Willkie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Tom Wilson | ... | (archive footage) | |
Walter Winchell | ... | Walter Winchell (archive footage) | |
Fay Wray | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Loretta Young | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Tammany Young | ... | (archive footage) | |
Giuseppe Zangara | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Produced by
Sanford Lieberson | ... | producer |
David Puttnam | ... | producer |
Editing by
Jeremy Thomas |
Sound Department
George Akers | ... | dubbing editor |
Bill Rowe | ... | sound re-recordist |
Mike Taylor | ... | dubbing assistant (as Michael Taylor) |
Editorial Department
Xavier Russell | ... | apprentice editor |
Michael Saxton | ... | assistant editor |
Additional Crew
Michael Barlow | ... | research |
Leontine Ruette | ... | assistant to producer |
Jennifer E. Ryan | ... | research (as Jennifer Ryan) |
Susan Winslow | ... | research |
Thanks
Tom Bade | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation (as Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.) |
Peter Guber | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
Marty Halperin | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation (as Martin Halperin) |
Jordan Kalfus | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
Alan Ladd Jr. | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation (as Alan Ladd Jnr.) |
Leonard Maltin | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
David V. Picker | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation (as David Picker) |
Raymond Rohauer | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
Daniel Selznick | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
David Shepard | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |
Henri Silx | ... | the producers wish to thank: for their help and cooperation |