Narrator (voice)

Art Gilmore

Acting

Audience Member (uncredited)

Sheldon Jett

Acting

Audience Member (uncredited)

Harold Miller

Acting

Audience Member (uncredited)

Edwin Tuttle

Acting

Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)

Giovanni Martinelli

Acting

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

George Arliss

Acting

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)

John Barrymore

Acting

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

Eugenie Besserer

Acting

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

James Cagney

Acting

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Jeanne Cagney

Acting

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Acting

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Acting

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Rosemary DeCamp

Acting

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Robert Elliott

Acting

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Acting

Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)

Josephine Hutchinson

Acting

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Acting

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Cullen Landis

Acting

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Joan Leslie

Acting

Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)

Paul Muni

Acting

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Acting

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Eugene Pallette

Acting

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Stanley Ridges

Acting

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

Acting

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

David Torrence

Acting

Self (archive footage)

Harry M. Warner

Acting

Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner

Production

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

Ethel Waters

Acting