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