On screen
Cast
166 credited performers
Hillary Clinton
Self
Mike Nichols
Self
Gloria Steinem
Self
Steve Martin
Self
Scarlett Johansson
Self
Goran Višnjić
Robert Capa (voice)
Patsy Cline
Self (archive footage)
Maya Angelou
Self
Sidney Lumet
Self
Oprah Winfrey
Self
Common
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Jane Alexander
Narrator
Graeme Malcom
John Muir (voice)
Denis O'Hare
Edgar Allan Poe
Kathleen Turner
Narrator (voice)
Peter Falk
Self
Billie Jean King
Self
Peaches Bartkowicz
Self
Rosie Casals
Self
Margaret Court
Self
Chris Evert
Self
Julie Heldman
Self
Valerie Jarrett
Self
Elton John
Self
Maria Sharapova
Self
Serena Williams
Self
Venus Williams
Self
Caroline Wozniacki
Self
Lena Horne
Self
Gail Lumet Buckley
Self
Ossie Davis
Self
Alan King
Self
Ricardo Montalban
Self
Bobby Short
Self
Liz Smith
Self
Dionne Warwick
Self
Joe Williams
Self
Luther Henderson
Self
Josephine Premice
Self
Jonathan Schwartz
Self
Michael Wright
Self
Richard Avedon
Self
John Lahr
Self
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self
Graydon Carter
Self
Annie Leibovitz
Self
George Clooney
Self
Robert Downey Jr.
Self
Kirsten Dunst
Self
Whoopi Goldberg
Self
Mick Jagger
Self
Bette Midler
Self
Yoko Ono
Self
Richard Nixon
Self
Hunter S. Thompson
Self
Susan Sontag
Self
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self
Jason Schwartzman
Self
Chris Rock
Self
Julia Roberts
Self
Mae West
Self (archive footage)
Keith Richards
Self
Candice Bergen
Self
Anna Wintour
Self
Margaret Cho
Self
Demi Moore
Self
Ringo Starr
Self
Jeanine Basinger
Self
Rona Barrett
Self
Molly Haskell
Self
Kathy Najimy
Self
Elaine May
Self
Steve Allen
Self
Tom Brokaw
Self
Jules Feiffer
Self
Richard Lewis
Self
Arthur Penn
Self
Jack Rollins
Self
Robin Williams
Self
Robin Williams
Self
Linda Williams
Self
Arthur Miller
Self
Dustin Hoffman
Self
John Malkovich
Self
Volker Schlöndorff
Self
Kate Reid
Self
Stephen Lang
Self
Michael Ballhaus
Self
Rosamond Bernier
Self
Paul Portelli
Self
Robert Penn Warren
Self
Eudora Welty
Self
Fats Domino
Self
Clarke Peters
Self - Narrator
Dave Bartholomew
Self
Alvin Ailey
Self (archive footage)
Carmen De Lavallade
Self
Rennie Harris
Self
Masazumi Chaya
Self
George Faison
Self
Judith Jamison
Self
Bill T. Jones
Self
Jason Momoa
Narrator (voice)
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
Clint Eastwood
Self
Dina Eastwood
Self
James Garner
Self
William Goldman
Self
Jack N. Green
Self
Gene Hackman
Self
Curtis Hanson
Self
Matthew Allis
Carl Sandberg (College)
Itzhak Perlman
Self
J.K. Simmons
Edward Hopper
Christine Baranski
Josephine Nivison Hopper
Isabel May
Alta Hilsdale
Steven Yeun
Naim June Paik
William F. Buckley Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Brenda Lee
Self
Trisha Yearwood
Self
Neil Giraldo
Self
Pat Benatar
Self
Jackie DeShannon
Self
Tanya Tucker
Self
Keith Urban
Self
Robert K. Oermann
Self
Alan Stoker
Self
'Shotgun Tom' Kelly
Self
Lorianne Crook
Self
Julia Child
Self
Michael Murphy
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jody Adams
Self
Dan Aykroyd
Julia Child (archive footage)
Simone Beck
Self (archive footage)
Paul Child
Self (archive footage)
Geoffrey Drummond
Self
Judith Jones
Self
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Corby Kummer
Self
Russell Morash
Self
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Pépin
Self
Ruth Reichl
Self
Laura Shapiro
Self
Jasper White
Self
Dick Van Dyke
Self - Starring Subject/Interviewee
Julie Andrews
Self - Interviewee
Pat Boone
Self - Interviewee
Carol Burnett
Self - Interviewee
Jim Carrey
Self - Interviewee
Ted Danson
Self - Interviewee
Eric Deggans
Self - Interviewee
Karen Dotrice
Self - Interviewee
Larry Mathews
Self - Interviewee
Conan O'Brien
Self - Interviewee
Victoria Rowell
Self - Interviewee
Martin Short
Self - Interviewee
Walter Cronkite
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Sam Denoff
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Sheldon Leonard
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Rose Marie
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Mary Tyler Moore
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Bill Persky
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Carl Reiner
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Tony Benn
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