| Clark Gable | ... | Actor in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) |
| Greta Garbo | ... | Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) |
| The Marx Brothers | ... | Actors in 'Go West' (archive footage) |
| Jean Harlow | ... | Actress in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) |
| Cary Grant | ... | Actor in 'Suzy' (archive footage) |
| Spencer Tracy | ... | Actor in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) |
| Katharine Hepburn | ... | Actress in 'The Philadelphia Story' (archive footage) |
| W.C. Fields | ... | Actor in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) |
| Stan Laurel | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Story' (archive footage) |
| Oliver Hardy | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Story' (archive footage) |
| William Powell | ... | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Actress in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) |
| Lucille Ball | ... | Actress in 'Meet the People' (archive footage) |
| Red Skelton | ... | Actor in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) |
| Robert Taylor | ... | Actor in 'Personal Property' (archive footage) |
| Joan Crawford | ... | Actress in 'Pretty ladies' (archive footage) |
| Marie Dressler | ... | Actress in 'Reducing' (archive footage) |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Actor in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) |
 | Bud Abbott | ... | Actor in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) |
| Lou Costello | ... | Actor in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) |
| Carole Lombard | ... | Actress in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) |
| Jimmy Durante | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' Trailer (archive footage) |
| Buster Keaton | ... | Actor in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) |
| Ted Healy | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) |
| The Three Stooges | ... | Actors in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... | Actor in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) |
| Franchot Tone | ... | Actor in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) |
| Melvyn Douglas | ... | Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) |
| Robert Benchley | ... | Actor in 'That Inferior Feeling' (archive footage) |
| Marion Davies | ... | Actress in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) |
| Lee Tracy | ... | Actor in 'Bombshell' (archive footage) |
| Polly Moran | ... | Actress in 'China Bound' (archive footage) |
| Gail Patrick | ... | Actress in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) |
| Lewis Stone | ... | Actor in 'Suzy' (archive footage) |
| Bert Lahr | ... | Actor in 'Meet the People' (archive footage) |
| Nat Pendleton | ... | Actor in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) |
| Chester Morris | ... | Actor in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) |
| Lupe Velez | ... | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) |
| Freddie Bartholomew | ... | Actor in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) |
| Zasu Pitts | ... | Actress in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) |
| Karl Dane | ... | Actor in 'China Bound' (archive footage) |
| George K. Arthur | ... | Actor in 'Detectives' (archive footage) |
| Leo Carrillo | ... | Actor in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) |
| Asta | ... | Dog in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (as Asta The Dog) |
| Dave O'Brien | ... | Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage) |
| James Finlayson | ... | Actor in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (as Jimmy Finlayson) |
| Les Tremayne | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: |
| Elizabeth Allan | ... | Actress in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Robert Barrat | ... | Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jack Baxley | ... | Actor in 'A Night at the Movies' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Monta Bell | ... | Director of 'Pretty Ladies' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lionel Belmore | ... | Actor in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Tod Browning | ... | Director of 'The Mystic' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Burgess | ... | Actress in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Richard Carle | ... | Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John Carroll | ... | Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Nora Cecil | ... | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Charles Chaplin | ... | Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| E.E. Clive | ... | Actor in 'Personal Property' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Louise Closser Hale | ... | Actress in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lew Cody | ... | Actor in 'The Sporting Venus' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Actor in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jeff Corey | ... | Actor in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Josephine Crowell | ... | Actress in 'The Sporting Venus' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Frank Dawson | ... | Actor in 'Suzy' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Marceline Day | ... | Actress in 'Detectives' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Edgar Dearing | ... | Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Brian Donlevy | ... | Actor in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... | Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Larry Fine | ... | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Willie Fung | ... | Actor in 'Too Hot to Handle' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John Gilbert | ... | Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Ferdinand Gottschalk | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Charley Grapewin | ... | Actor in 'Libeled Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Harry Gribbon | ... | Actor in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| William Haines | ... | Actor in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Winifred Harris | ... | Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Phillips Holmes | ... | Actor in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Curly Howard | ... | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Moe Howard | ... | One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John Ireland | ... | Actor in 'A Southern Yankee' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Leatrice Joy | ... | Actress in Theater Lobby (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Walter Woolf King | ... | Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Diana Lewis | ... | Actress in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Actor in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Chico Marx | ... | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Groucho Marx | ... | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Harpo Marx | ... | One of The Marx Brothers (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Actor in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Owen Moore | ... | Actor in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Karen Morley | ... | Actress in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jack Norton | ... | Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Anita Page | ... | Actress in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Barnett Parker | ... | Actor in Personal Property' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Herbert Prior | ... | Actor on Train in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jed Prouty | ... | Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Tom Ricketts | ... | Actor in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Bert Roach | ... | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| George Tobias | ... | Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Billy Wayne | ... | Actor in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Huey White | ... | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Peter Whitney | ... | Actor in 'Rio Rita' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Charles Williams | ... | Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Clarence Wilson | ... | Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Tammany Young | ... | Actor in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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