Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Carey Wilson

as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

Janet Gaynor

as Self (archive footage)

Emil Jannings

as Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

as Self (archive footage)

Warner Baxter

as Self (archive footage)

Norma Shearer

as Self

George Arliss

as Self (archive footage)

Marie Dressler

as Self (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

as Self (archive footage)

Helen Hayes

as Self (archive footage)

Fredric March

as Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton

as Self

Claudette Colbert

as Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

as Self (archive footage)

Shirley Temple

as Self (archive footage)

Irvin S. Cobb

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

as Self

Irving Thalberg

as Self (archive footage)

Luise Rainer

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Muni

as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

as Self

W.C. Fields

as Self (archive footage)

Mack Sennett

as Self (archive footage)

Edgar Bergen

as Self (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck

as Self

Douglas Fairbanks

as Self (archive footage)

Deanna Durbin

as Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney

as Self

Walt Disney

as Self (archive footage)

Hal B. Wallis

as Self (archive footage)

George Bernard Shaw

as Self (archive footage)

James Stewart

as Self

Elsa Lanchester

as Self

Jean Hersholt

as Self

Hedy Lamarr

as Self

Gene Markey

as Self

Melvyn Douglas

as Self

Helen Gahagan

as Self

Irving Pichel

as Self

Vivien Leigh

as Self

David O. Selznick

as Self

May Robson

as Self

Olivia de Havilland

as Self

John Hay Whitney

as Self

Louella Parsons

as Self

Harry Martin

as Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

Hedda Hopper

as Self

John Carroll

as Self

Jack L. Warner

as Self

Harry M. Warner

as Self

Ann Rutherford

as Self

Virginia Bruce

as Self

J. Walter Ruben

as Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Self

Elsa Maxwell

as Self

Laurence Olivier

as Self

E.J. Mannix

as Self

Judy Garland

as Self

George Raft

as Self

Walter Wanger

as Self

Frank Capra

as Self

Robert Donat

as Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

as Self

Thomas Mitchell

as Self

Fay Bainter

as Self

Victor Fleming

as Self

Mervyn LeRoy

as Self

Sinclair Lewis

as Self

Lewis R. Foster

as Self

Gordon Hollingshead

as Self

Hamilton Luske

as Self

Bob Hope

as Self - Master of Ceremonies

E.Y. Harburg

as Self

Harold Arlen

as Self

William Cameron Menzies

as Self

Herbert T. Kalmus

as Self

Hal C. Kern

as Self

James E. Newcom

as Self

Ernest Haller

as Self

Ray Rennahan

as Self

Bernard B. Brown

as Self

Fred Sersen

as Self

Lyle R. Wheeler

as Self

Edmund H. Hansen

as Self

Herbert Stothart

as Self