Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5
3 reviews
Documentary
0h 17m
1940
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...
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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.
- Director?
- Release31 July 1940
- GenreDocumentary
- Duration0h 17m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate6.53 reviews
- Productions
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Cast
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)
Paul Muni
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Self
W.C. Fields
Self (archive footage)
Mack Sennett
Self (archive footage)
Edgar Bergen
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Deanna Durbin
Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
Self
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Hal B. Wallis
Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Self
Elsa Lanchester
Self
Jean Hersholt
Self
Hedy Lamarr
Self
Gene Markey
Self
Melvyn Douglas
Self
Helen Gahagan
Self
Irving Pichel
Self
Vivien Leigh
Self
David O. Selznick
Self
May Robson
Self
Olivia de Havilland
Self
Louella Parsons
Self
Hedda Hopper
Self
John Carroll
Self
Jack L. Warner
Self
Ann Rutherford
Self
Virginia Bruce
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Elsa Maxwell
Self
Laurence Olivier
Self
Judy Garland
Self
George Raft
Self
Frank Capra
Self
Robert Donat
Self (archive footage)
Hattie McDaniel
Self
Thomas Mitchell
Self
Fay Bainter
Self
Victor Fleming
Self
Mervyn LeRoy
Self
Sinclair Lewis
Self
Lewis R. Foster
Self
Hamilton Luske
Self
Bob Hope
Self - Master of Ceremonies
E.Y. Harburg
Self
Harold Arlen
Self
William Cameron Menzies
Self
Ernest Haller
Self
Herbert Stothart
Self
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