On screen
Cast
21 credited performers
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Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice)
William Alland
Self
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Thomas Anderson
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
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Jimmy Breslin
Self
Marion Davies
Self (archive footage)
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Leonard de Paur
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Richard France
Self
William Randolph Hearst
Self (archive footage)
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William Herz
Self
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Sam Leve
Self
Norman Lloyd
Self
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Nancy Loe
Self
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Frank Mankiewicz
Self
Ruth Warrick
Self
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
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Vern Whaley
Self
Robert Wise
Self
David McCullough
Self - Host of The American Experience
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Character not listed