Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984Robert 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.
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Robert Preston
as Self - Host
Gracie Allen
as (archive footage)
George Arliss
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Arthur
as (archive footage)
Fred Astaire
as (archive footage)
Mischa Auer
as (archive footage)
George Bancroft
as (archive footage)
John Barrymore
as (archive footage)
Matthew Beard
as (archive footage)
Wallace Beery
as (archive footage)
Constance Bennett
as (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
as (archive footage)
Eric Blore
as (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
as (archive footage)
William Boyd
as (archive footage)
Charles Boyer
as (archive footage)
Joe E. Brown
as Self (archive footage)
George Burns
as (archive footage)
Spring Byington
as (archive footage)
James Cagney
as (archive footage)
John Carradine
as (archive footage)
Jack Carson
as (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
as (archive footage)
Berton Churchill
as (archive footage)
Joe Cobb
as (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
as (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
as (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
as (archive footage)
Crown Prince Hohenzollern
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
as Self (archive footage)
Andy Devine
as (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
as Self (archive footage)
Lee Duncan
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
as (archive footage)
W.C. Fields
as (archive footage)
Larry Fine
as Larry (archive footage)
Pat Flaherty
as (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
as (archive footage)
Clark Gable
as (archive footage)
Charley Grapewin
as (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
as (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
as (archive footage)
Ted Healy
as (archive footage)
Samuel S. Hinds
as (archive footage)
Tim Holt
as (archive footage)
Darla Hood
as (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
as (archive footage)
Curly Howard
as (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
as (archive footage)
Moe Howard
as (archive footage)
Walter Huston
as (archive footage)
Selmer Jackson
as (archive footage)
Chic Johnson
as (archive footage)
Al Jolson
as (archive footage)
Boris Karloff
as (archive footage)
Buster Keaton
as (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
as (archive footage)
Harry Langdon
as (archive footage)
Stan Laurel
as (archive footage)
Carole Lombard
as (archive footage)
Walter Long
as (archive footage)
Edmund Lowe
as (archive footage)
Bela Lugosi
as (archive footage)
Fredric March
as Self (archive footage)
Groucho Marx
as (archive footage)
Harpo Marx
as (archive footage)
George McFarland
as (archive footage)
Donald Meek
as (archive footage)
Charles Middleton
as (archive footage)
Thomas Mitchell
as (archive footage)
Grace Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Alan Mowbray
as (archive footage)
Ole Olsen
as (archive footage)
Lynne Overman
as Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
as (archive footage)
Franklin Pangborn
as (archive footage)
Louise Platt
as (archive footage)
Dick Powell
as (archive footage)
William Powell
as (archive footage)
Rin-Tin-Tin
as Self (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
as (archive footage)
Will Rogers
as (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
as (archive footage)
Babe Ruth
as (archive footage)
Sylvia Sidney
as (archive footage)
Carl Switzer
as (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
as (archive footage)
Claire Trevor
as (archive footage)
Tom Tyler
as (archive footage)
Rudy Vallee
as (archive footage)
John Wayne
as (archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller
as Self (archive footage)
Mae West
as Self (archive footage)