Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Sheldon Jett

Audience Member (uncredited)

Harold Miller

Audience Member (uncredited)

Edwin Tuttle

Audience Member (uncredited)

Giovanni Martinelli

Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)

George Arliss

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

John Barrymore

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)

Eugenie Besserer

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

James Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Jeanne Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Rosemary DeCamp

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Robert Elliott

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)

Jean Negulesco