| Henry Fonda | ... | Himself, Narrator |
| Ingrid Bergman | ... | Herself (also archive footage) |
| Joseph Cotten | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| George Cukor | ... | Himself |
| Joan Fontaine | ... | Herself (also archive footage) |
| Janet Gaynor | ... | Herself (also archive footage) |
| Alfred Hitchcock | ... | Himself |
| Rock Hudson | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Dorothy McGuire | ... | Herself (also archive footage) |
| Gregory Peck | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
 | King Vidor | ... | Himself |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: |
| Russell Birdwell | ... | Himself |
| Katherine Brown | ... | Herself |
| Katharine Hepburn | ... | Herself - Interviewee (also archive footage) |
| Raymond A. Klune | ... | Himself |
| Alan J. Pakula | ... | Himself |
| Maude Adams | ... | Herself, film clip (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Judith Anderson | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Richard Arlen | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jean Arthur | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Fred Astaire | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Dancing Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Tallulah Bankhead | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John Barrymore | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Robert Benchley | ... | Robert Benchley - Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joan Bennett | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Madeleine Carroll | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Ronald Colman | ... | Himself, film clips from 'Prisoner of Zenda' - 'Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joan Crawford | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Dancing Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Frances Dee | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Dolores del Rio | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Andy Devine | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Marie Dressler | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Gösta Ekman | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Intermezzo' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| W.C. Fields | ... | Himself, film clip from 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Clark Gable | ... | Himself, film clips from 'Manhattan Melodrama' - 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Greta Garbo | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Anna Karenina' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Paulette Goddard | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jean Harlow | ... | Herself, film clips from 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Susan Hayward | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Leslie Howard | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Intermezzo' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jennifer Jones | ... | Herself, film clips from 'Portrait of Jennie' - 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Vivien Leigh | ... | Herself, film clips from 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Carole Lombard | ... | Herself, film clip from 'Nothing Sacred' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Fredric March | ... | Himself, film clips from 'A Star Is Born' & 'Nothing Sacred' - 'Anna Karenina' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Alan Marshal | ... | Himself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Louis B. Mayer | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joel McCrea | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Adolphe Menjou | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Margaret Mitchell | ... | Herself, film clip ('Gone with the Wind' premiere) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Hattie Noel | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Laurence Olivier | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| William Powell | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| David O. Selznick | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lionel Stander | ... | Himself, film clip from 'Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Margaret Sullavan | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Rebecca') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Laurette Taylor | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Spencer Tracy | ... | Himself, film clip (1939 Academy Awards) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Lana Turner | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Gone with the Wind') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Loretta Young | ... | Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Rebecca') (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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