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