
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Documentary
Release Date
January 1, 1984
Duration
76 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Casts

Self - Host
Robert Preston

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Gracie Allen

Self (archive footage)
George Arliss

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Jean Arthur

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Fred Astaire

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Mischa Auer

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George Bancroft

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John Barrymore

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Matthew Beard

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Wallace Beery

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Constance Bennett

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Joan Blondell

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Eric Blore

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Humphrey Bogart

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William Boyd

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Charles Boyer

Self (archive footage)
Joe E. Brown

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George Burns

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Spring Byington

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James Cagney

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John Carradine

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Jack Carson

Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin

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Maurice Chevalier

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Berton Churchill

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Joe Cobb

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Gary Cooper

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Joan Crawford

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Bing Crosby

Self (archive footage)
Crown Prince Hohenzollern

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Bette Davis

Self (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille

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Andy Devine

Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich

Self (archive footage)
Lee Duncan

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Jimmy Durante

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W.C. Fields

Larry (archive footage)
Larry Fine

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Pat Flaherty

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Henry Fonda

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Clark Gable

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Charley Grapewin

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Oliver Hardy

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Jean Harlow

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Ted Healy

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Samuel S. Hinds

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Tim Holt

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Darla Hood

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Herbert Hoover

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Curly Howard

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Leslie Howard

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Moe Howard

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Walter Huston

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Selmer Jackson

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Chic Johnson

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Al Jolson

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Boris Karloff

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Buster Keaton

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Hedy Lamarr

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Harry Langdon

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Stan Laurel

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Carole Lombard

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Walter Long

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Edmund Lowe

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Bela Lugosi

Self (archive footage)
Fredric March

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Groucho Marx

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Harpo Marx

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George McFarland

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Donald Meek

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Charles Middleton

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Thomas Mitchell

Self (archive footage)
Grace Moore

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Alan Mowbray

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Ole Olsen

Self (archive footage)
Lynne Overman

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Eugene Pallette

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Franklin Pangborn

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Louise Platt

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Dick Powell

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William Powell

Self (archive footage)
Rin-Tin-Tin

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Ginger Rogers

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Will Rogers

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Babe Ruth

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Sylvia Sidney

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Carl Switzer

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Shirley Temple

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Claire Trevor

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Tom Tyler

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Rudy Vallee

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John Wayne

Self (archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller

Self (archive footage)
Mae West