On screen
Cast
123 credited performers
James Mason
Self - Narrator
Byron Haskin
Self
Viola Dana
Self
Colleen Moore
Self
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Self
Allan Dwan
Self
Karl Brown
Self
Henry King
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
King Vidor
Self
Anita Loos
Self
Lillian Gish
Self
Harvey Parry
Self
Leatrice Joy
Self
Agnes de Mille
Self
Gloria Swanson
Self
Blanche Sweet
Self
Albert S. Rogell
Self
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Hal Roach
Self
A. Arnold Gillespie
Self
Ben Lyon
Self
Henry Hathaway
Self
Cedric Belfrage
Self
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Self
Grant Whytock
Self
Bessie Love
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Coogan
Self
George Cukor
Self
Chauncey Haines
Self
William Hornbeck
Self
Bob Rose
Self
Samuel Marx
Self
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Self
Valerie Germonprez
Self
Yakima Canutt
Self
Paul Ivano
Self
Lois Wilson
Self
Harold Lloyd
Self (archive footage)
Paul Kohner
Self
Frank Capra
Self
R.L. Hough
Self
Eleanor Boardman
Self
Janet Gaynor
Self
Adolph Zukor
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Buster Keaton
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
William H. Hays
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Gaylord Carter
Self
Dolores Costello
Self
Gilbert M. Anderson
Self (archive footage)
Louis Mountbatten
Self
Lewis Milestone
Self
Raoul Walsh
Self (archive footage)
William A. Wellman
Self (archive footage)
Odille Osborne
Self
Paul Malvern
Self
Albert Valentino
Self
Joseph M. Schenck
Self (archive footage)
Marcus Loew
Self (archive footage)
Natacha Rambova
Self (archive footage)
Rex Ingram
Self (archive footage)
Marion Mack
Self
Georgie Harris
Self
Iron Eyes Cody
Self
Al Hoxie
Self
John Wayne
Self
Olive Carey
Self
Tim McCoy
Self
Harold D. Schuster
Self
George J. Folsey
Self
William Wyler
Self
Lee Garmes
Self
Louise Brooks
Self
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Self
Clarence Brown
Self (archive footage)
Irving Asher
Self
Mary Astor
Self
Laurence Irving
Self
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
Theodore Case
Self (archive footage)
Lois Weber
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Dolores del Río
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
George O'Brien
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Jack Pickford
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Roscoe Arbuckle
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Conway Tearle
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Marion Davies
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Alma Rubens
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Adele Rowland
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Alice Joyce
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Warren G. Harding
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Samuel Goldwyn
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Edmund Lowe
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Victor McLaglen
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Harry Lauder
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Sessue Hayakawa
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
David Lloyd George
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Red Thompson
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Dimitri Buchowetzki
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Josef von Sternberg
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Monta Bell
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Max Linder
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Buffalo Bill Cody
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Ricardo Cortez
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Louis B. Mayer
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Clara Bow
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Mauritz Stiller
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Jeanne Eagels
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Rex Bell
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Mae Murray
Self (archive footage, uncredited)