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