Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
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De Leon Anthony (Writer)
Carey Wilson
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
Warner Baxter
Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Self
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 (archive footage)
Charles Laughton
Self
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
Self (archive footage)
Irvin S. Cobb
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)
Luise Rainer
Self (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Self
W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)
Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage)
Edgar Bergen
Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Deanna Durbin
Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
Self
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Hal B. Wallis
Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Self
Elsa Lanchester
Self
Jean Hersholt
Self
Hedy Lamarr
Self
Gene Markey
Self
Melvyn Douglas
Self
Helen Gahagan
Self
Irving Pichel
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
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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 and more, with host Bob Hope.
