Fred Astaire as Self

Rock Hudson as Self

Hermes Pan as Self

Warren Beatty as Self

Pandro S. Berman as Self

Frank Capra as Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Self

Katharine Hepburn as Self

John Huston as Self

Rouben Mamoulian as Self

Joseph L. Mankiewicz as Self

Joel McCrea as Self

Ivan Moffat as Self

Alan J. Pakula as Self

Millie Perkins as Self

Hal Roach as Self

Ginger Rogers as Self

Irwin Shaw as Self

Jack Sher as Self

Yvonne Howell as Self

Max von Sydow as Self

Fred Zinnemann as Self

George Stevens Jr. as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jean Arthur as Self (archive footage)

Montgomery Clift as Self (archive footage)

James Dean as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant as Self (archive sound)

Sam Jaffe as Self (archive footage)

Alan Ladd as Self (archive footage)

Fred MacMurray as Self (archive footage)

Jack Palance as Self (archive footage)

George Stevens as Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy as Self (archive footage)

Shelley Winters as Self (archive footage)

Charles Coburn as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Brandon De Wilde as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Fontaine as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oliver Hardy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Van Heflin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stan Laurel as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victor McLaglen as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)