Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Documentary
Release Date
July 31, 1940
Duration
17 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Casts
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Carey Wilson
Self (archive footage)
Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
Warner Baxter
Self
Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage)
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Helen Hayes
Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self
Charles Laughton
Self (archive footage)
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
Self (archive footage)
Irvin S. Cobb
Self
Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)
Luise Rainer
Self (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Self
Spencer Tracy
Self (archive footage)
W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)
Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage)
Edgar Bergen
Self
Darryl F. Zanuck
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Deanna Durbin
Self
Mickey Rooney
Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Hal B. Wallis
Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw
Self
James Stewart
Self
Elsa Lanchester
Self
Jean Hersholt
Self
Hedy Lamarr
Self
Gene Markey
Self
Melvyn Douglas
Self
Helen Gahagan
Self
Irving Pichel
Self
Vivien Leigh
Self
David O. Selznick
Self
May Robson
Self
Olivia de Havilland
Self
John Hay Whitney
Self
Louella Parsons
Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)
Harry Martin
Self
Hedda Hopper
Self
John Carroll
Self
Jack L. Warner
Self
Harry M. Warner
Self
Ann Rutherford
Self
Virginia Bruce
Self
J. Walter Ruben
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Elsa Maxwell
Self
Laurence Olivier
Self
E.J. Mannix
Self
Judy Garland
Self
George Raft
Self
Walter Wanger
Self
Frank Capra
Self (archive footage)
Robert Donat
Self
Hattie McDaniel
Self
Thomas Mitchell
Self
Fay Bainter
Self
Victor Fleming
Self
Mervyn LeRoy
Self
Sinclair Lewis
Self
Lewis R. Foster
Self
Gordon Hollingshead
Self
Hamilton Luske
Self - Master of Ceremonies
Bob Hope
Self
E.Y. Harburg
Self
Harold Arlen
Self
William Cameron Menzies
Self
Herbert T. Kalmus
Self
Hal C. Kern
Self
James E. Newcom
Self
Ernest Haller
Self
Ray Rennahan
Self
Bernard B. Brown
Self
Fred Sersen
Self
Lyle R. Wheeler
Self
Edmund H. Hansen
Self
Herbert Stothart
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