Art Gilmore (31)

Narrator (voice)

Sheldon Jett (42)

Audience Member (uncredited)

Harold Miller (49)

Audience Member (uncredited)

Edwin Tuttle

Audience Member (uncredited)

Giovanni Martinelli (57)

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

George Arliss (75)

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

John Barrymore (61)

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

Eugenie Besserer (74)

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

James Cagney (44)

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

Jeanne Cagney (24)

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

Gary Cooper (42)

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

Bette Davis (35)

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Rosemary DeCamp (32)

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

Robert Elliott (64)

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

Walter Huston (60)

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)

Josephine Hutchinson (40)

Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)

Al Jolson (57)

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

Cullen Landis (47)

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

Joan Leslie (18)

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

Paul Muni (48)

Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini (60)

Self (archive footage)

Eugene Pallette (54)

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

Stanley Ridges (53)

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

Franchot Tone (38)

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

David Torrence (79)

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

Harry M. Warner

Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner (51)

Self (archive footage)

Ethel Waters (46)

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)