Kenneth Branagh as Narrator (voice)

Clark Gable as Self (archive footage)

Vivien Leigh as Self (archive footage)

Olivia de Havilland as Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland as Self (archive footage)

Leonard Maltin as Self

Errol Flynn as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis as Self (archive footage)

Thomas Schatz as Self

F. X. Feeney as Self

Scott Eyman as Self

Jeanine Basinger as Self

Aubrey Solomon as Self

Molly Haskell as Self

George Cukor as Self (archive footage)

Rudy Behlmer as Self

Francis Lederer as Self (archive footage)

Joseph McBride as Self

Frank Capra as Self (archive footage)

Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Maureen O'Hara as Self (archive footage)

Claire Trevor as Self (archive footage)

Daniel Selznick as Self

Ann Rutherford as Self (archive footage)

Fred Astaire as Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart as Self (archive footage)

Charles Boyer as Self (archive footage)

James Cagney as Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford as Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney as Self (archive footage)

Robert Donat as Self (archive footage)

Irene Dunne as Self (archive footage)

John Ford as Self (archive footage)

Greta Garbo as Self (archive footage)

Greer Garson as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant as Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope as Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton as Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy as Self (archive footage)

Louis B. Mayer as Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel as Self (archive footage)

Thomas Mitchell as Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson as Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers as Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)

David O. Selznick as Self (archive footage)

George Stevens as Self (archive footage)

James Stewart as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy as Self (archive footage)

Lana Turner as Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner as Self (archive footage)

John Wayne as Self (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck as Self (archive footage)

A.C. Lyles as Self