Art Gilmore
Role: Narrator (voice)
Sheldon Jett
Role: Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Role: Audience Member (uncredited)
Edwin Tuttle
Role: Audience Member (uncredited)
Giovanni Martinelli
Role: Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
George Arliss
Role: Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Role: Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer
Role: Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
James Cagney
Role: Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney
Role: Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Role: Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Role: Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp
Role: Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Robert Elliott
Role: Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Role: Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson
Role: Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Role: Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Cullen Landis
Role: Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Joan Leslie
Role: Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Role: Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Role: Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
Role: Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Stanley Ridges
Role: Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
Role: Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
David Torrence
Role: Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Harry M. Warner
Role: Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
Role: Self (archive footage)
Ethel Waters
Role: Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)