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Director:

Philippe Mora

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Release Date:

26 November 1975 (France) more

Genre:

Documentary more

Plot:

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Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. more

User Comments:

A very enjoyable documentary more (5 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Laverne Andrews ... Herself (archive footage)
Maxene Andrews ... Herself (archive footage)
Patty Andrews ... Herself (archive footage)

Fred Astaire ... (archive footage)
Warner Baxter ... (archive footage)

Jack Benny ... Himself (archive footage)
Busby Berkeley ... Himself (archive footage)
Willie Best ... (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart ... (archive footage)

James Cagney ... Himself (archive footage)
Cab Calloway ... (archive footage)
Eddie Cantor ... (archive footage)
Hobart Cavanaugh ... (archive footage)
George Chandler ... (archive footage)

Charles Chaplin ... Himself (archive footage)
Winston Churchill ... Himself (archive footage)
Betty Compson ... (archive footage)

Gary Cooper ... (archive footage)

Bing Crosby ... (archive footage)
Frankie Darro ... (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille ... Himself (archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich ... (archive footage)
John Dillinger ... Himself (archive footage)

Walt Disney ... Himself (archive footage)
James Dunn ... (archive footage)
Cliff Edwards ... Himself (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower ... Himself (archive footage)
Bill Elliott ... (archive footage)
Madge Evans ... (archive footage)
Stepin Fetchit ... (archive footage)

W.C. Fields ... (archive footage)
Dick Foran ... (archive footage)
Gerald Ford ... Himself (archive footage)

Clark Gable ... Himself (archive footage)
Benny Goodman ... (archive footage)

Cary Grant ... (archive footage)
Woody Guthrie ... Himself (archive footage)

George 'Gabby' Hayes ... (archive footage)
Billie Holiday ... Herself (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover ... Himself (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover ... Himself (archive footage)

Bob Hope ... (archive footage)
William Hopper ... (archive footage) (as DeWolf Hopper Jr.)
Hubert H. Humphrey ... Himself (archive footage)

Walter Huston ... (archive footage)
Lyndon Johnson ... Himself (archive footage)

Al Jolson ... Himself (archive footage)
Ruby Keeler ... (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy ... (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy ... Himself (archive footage)

Hedy Lamarr ... (archive footage)

Vivien Leigh ... Herself (archive footage)

Carole Lombard ... Herself (archive footage)
Huey Long ... Himself (archive footage)
Joe Louis ... Himself (archive footage)
Douglas MacArthur ... Himself (archive footage)

Fredric March ... (archive footage)

Chico Marx ... (archive footage)

Groucho Marx ... (archive footage)

Harpo Marx ... (archive footage)
Grant Mitchell ... (archive footage)
Fayard Nicholas ... (archive footage)
Harold Nicholas ... (archive footage)
Pat Nixon ... Herself (archive footage)
Richard Nixon ... Himself (archive footage)
Dick Powell ... (archive footage)

George Raft ... (archive footage)
Paul Robeson ... (archive footage)
Dewey Robinson ... (archive footage)

Will Rogers ... Himself (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt ... Herself (archive footage)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Himself (archive footage)

James Stewart ... (archive footage)

Shirley Temple ... Herself (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman ... Himself (archive footage)
Rudy Vallee ... Himself (archive footage)

John Wayne ... Himself (archive footage)

Orson Welles ... Himself (archive footage)
Harlow Wilcox ... (archive footage)
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Runtime:

Sweden:109 min | USA:103 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | USA:PG

Company:

Goodtimes Enterprises more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Hill Street Blues: Buddy, Can You Spare a Heart? (#3.21)" (1983) more

Soundtrack:

Dust Can't Kill Me more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
A very enjoyable documentary, 19 September 2003
Author: Ed in St. Louis (spanishlake@yahoo.com) from United States

I recently bought this documentary on DVD and watched it several times in succession. It is the best archival source of Depression-era material I have ever run across. I particulary enjoyed the segment with Huey Long. What a terrific speaker he was! And to see him on stage with Ina Ray Hutton, the woman band leader, was a real treat. I highly recommend this for historians of America in the 20th century.

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