Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Cast & Crew
Carey Wilson
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
Warner Baxter
Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Self
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Helen Hayes
Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Charles Laughton
Self
Claudette Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
Self (archive footage)
Irvin S. Cobb
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self
Irving Thalberg
Self (archive footage)
Luise Rainer
Self (archive footage)
More Like This
Similar films
Seduced and Abandoned
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Sidney
And the Oscar Goes To...
Night Will Fall
Love, Marilyn
Birth of the Living Dead
Love, Gilda
Champs
To Be Takei
Iverson
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
That's Entertainment!
A Decade Under the Influence
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin