Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
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Carey Wilson as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice) |
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Janet Gaynor as Self (archive footage) |
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Emil Jannings as Self (archive footage) |
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Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage) |
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Warner Baxter as Self (archive footage) |
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Norma Shearer as Self |
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George Arliss as Self (archive footage) |
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Marie Dressler as Self (archive footage) |
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Lionel Barrymore as Self (archive footage) |
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Helen Hayes as Self (archive footage) |
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Fredric March as Self (archive footage) |
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Katharine Hepburn as Self (archive footage) |
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Charles Laughton as Self |
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Claudette Colbert as Self (archive footage) |
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Clark Gable as Self (archive footage) |
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Shirley Temple as Self (archive footage) |
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Irvin S. Cobb as Self (archive footage) |
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Bette Davis as Self |
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Irving Thalberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Luise Rainer as Self (archive footage) |
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Paul Muni as Self (archive footage) |
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Spencer Tracy as Self |
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W.C. Fields as Self (archive footage) |
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Mack Sennett as Self (archive footage) |
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Edgar Bergen as Self (archive footage) |
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Darryl F. Zanuck as Self |
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Douglas Fairbanks as Self (archive footage) |
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Deanna Durbin as Self (archive footage) |
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Mickey Rooney as Self |
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Walt Disney as Self (archive footage) |
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Hal B. Wallis as Self (archive footage) |
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George Bernard Shaw as Self (archive footage) |
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James Stewart as Self |
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Elsa Lanchester as Self |
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Jean Hersholt as Self |
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Hedy Lamarr as Self |
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Gene Markey as Self |
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Melvyn Douglas as Self |
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Helen Gahagan as Self |
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Irving Pichel as Self |
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Vivien Leigh as Self |
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David O. Selznick as Self |
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May Robson as Self |
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Olivia de Havilland as Self |
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John Hay Whitney as Self |
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Louella Parsons as Self |
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Harry Martin as Self (as Dr. Henry Martin) |
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Hedda Hopper as Self |
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John Carroll as Self |
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Jack L. Warner as Self |
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Harry M. Warner as Self |
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Ann Rutherford as Self |
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Virginia Bruce as Self |
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J. Walter Ruben as Self |
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Self |
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Elsa Maxwell as Self |
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Laurence Olivier as Self |
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E.J. Mannix as Self |
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Judy Garland as Self |
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George Raft as Self |
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Walter Wanger as Self |
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Frank Capra as Self |
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Robert Donat as Self (archive footage) |
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Hattie McDaniel as Self |
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Thomas Mitchell as Self |
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Fay Bainter as Self |
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Victor Fleming as Self |
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Mervyn LeRoy as Self |
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Sinclair Lewis as Self |
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Lewis R. Foster as Self |
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Gordon Hollingshead as Self |
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Hamilton Luske as Self |
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Bob Hope as Self - Master of Ceremonies |
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E.Y. Harburg as Self |
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Harold Arlen as Self |
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William Cameron Menzies as Self |
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Herbert T. Kalmus as Self |
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Hal C. Kern as Self |
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James E. Newcom as Self |
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Ernest Haller as Self |
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Ray Rennahan as Self |
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Bernard B. Brown as Self |
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Fred Sersen as Self |
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Lyle R. Wheeler as Self |
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Edmund H. Hansen as Self |
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Herbert Stothart as Self |
| Crew | Frank Capra | Supervisor of Production Resources |
| Writing | De Leon Anthony | Writer |
| Production | Gordon Hollingshead | Producer |
