Clint Eastwood as Narrator

Carroll Baker as Self

Warren Beatty as Self

James Cagney as Self (archive footage)

Alexis Smith as Self

Claire Trevor as Self

Kim Hunter as Self

Margot Kidder as Self

Pat O’Brien as Self (archive footage)

Robert Redford as Self

Humphrey Bogart as Self (archive footage)

Joan Blondell as Self

George Clooney as Self

Martin Scorsese as Self

Edward G. Robinson as Self (archive footage)

William A. Wellman as Self (archive footage)

Mervyn LeRoy as Self (archive footage)

Busby Berkeley as Self (archive footage)

Stanley Donen as Self

Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)

Hal B. Wallis as Self (archive footage)

Vincent Sherman as Self (archive footage)

Robert Towne as Self

Julius J. Epstein as Self (archive footage)

Raoul Walsh as Self (archive footage)

Curtis Hanson as Self

Howard Koch as Self (archive footage)

Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)

Sidney Lumet as Self