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Art Gilmore as Narrator (voice) |
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Sheldon Jett as Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Harold Miller as Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Edwin Tuttle as Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Giovanni Martinelli as Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage) |
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George Arliss as Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage) |
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John Barrymore as Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage) |
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Eugenie Besserer as Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage) |
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James Cagney as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Jeanne Cagney as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Gary Cooper as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) |
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Bette Davis as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) |
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Rosemary DeCamp as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Robert Elliott as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Walter Huston as Jerry Cohan (archive footage) |
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Josephine Hutchinson as Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage) |
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Al Jolson as Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage) |
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Cullen Landis as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Joan Leslie as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Paul Muni as Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage) |
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Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage) |
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Eugene Pallette as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Stanley Ridges as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) |
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Franchot Tone as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) |
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David Torrence as Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage) |
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Harry M. Warner as Self (archive footage) |
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Jack L. Warner as Self (archive footage) |
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Ethel Waters as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) |
| Editing | Thomas Pratt | Editor |
| Writing | James Bloodworth | Writer |
| Production | Gordon Hollingshead | Producer |
| Directing | Jean Negulesco | Director |
| Art | Roland E. Hill Sr. | Art Direction |
| Sound | Howard Jackson | Music |
| Camera | Sidney Hickox | Director of Photography |
