Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon

Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest

Alan Ladd as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)

Carl Reiner as Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck

Barbara Stanwyck as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

Ray Milland as (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)

Ava Gardner as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart as (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)

Cary Grant as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)

Veronica Lake as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Bette Davis as (in "Deception") (archive footage)

Lana Turner as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)

Edward Arnold as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)

Kirk Douglas as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)

Fred MacMurray as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

James Cagney as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)

Joan Crawford as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)

Reni Santoni as Carlos Rodriguez

Charles Laughton as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Vincent Price as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)

George Gaynes as Dr. Forrest

Francis X. McCarthy as Waiter

Gene LeBell as Hood

William Conrad as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Charles McGraw as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Jeff Corey as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

John Miljan as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)

Brian Donlevy as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Norma Varden as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)

Edmond O'Brien as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)

Britt Nilsson as Puppy Secretary

Jean Beaudine as Duty Secretary