Narrator (voice)

Art Gilmore

Audience Member (uncredited)

Sheldon Jett

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Rosemary DeCamp

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Robert Elliott

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)

Josephine Hutchinson

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Cullen Landis

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Joan Leslie

Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)

Paul Muni

Audience Member (uncredited)

Harold Miller

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Eugene Pallette

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Stanley Ridges

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

David Torrence

Self (archive footage)

Harry M. Warner

Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

Ethel Waters

Audience Member (uncredited)

Edwin Tuttle

Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)

Giovanni Martinelli

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

George Arliss

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)

John Barrymore

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

Eugenie Besserer

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

James Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Jeanne Cagney

Director

Jean Negulesco

Writer

James Bloodworth

Producer

Gordon Hollingshead

Editor

Thomas Pratt

Art Direction

Roland E. Hill Sr.

Music

Howard Jackson

Director of Photography

Sidney Hickox