The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Roddy McDowall
- Narrator
- (voice)
Richard Barthelmess
- The Yellow Man
- (archive footage)
Charles Chaplin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- …
Billy Compton
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Eastman
- Self
- (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Thomas Edison)
Douglas Fairbanks
- Self
- (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
- Lucy - The Girl
- (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
- Self
- (archive footage)
Robert Harron
- Self
- (archive footage)
Florence Lawrence
- Self
- (archive footage)