Directed by:
Philippe MoraCast:
Marlene Dietrich, Benny Goodman, Fred Astaire, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Constance Bennett, Jack Benny, Busby Berkeley, Irving Berlin, Herman Bing (more)Plots(1)
A documentary on the 1930's with contemporary newsreels, Hollywood clips and an assortment of depression era film shorts. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Errol Flynn
Australia
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Captain Blood (1935)
Dick Foran
USA
Best movies:
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Fort Apache (1948)
Studs Lonigan (1960)
Preston Foster
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Kay Francis
USA
Best movies:
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Clark Gable
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Best movies:
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Ninotchka (1939)
Judy Garland
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Easter Parade (1948)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Janet Gaynor
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
4 Devils (1928)
Street Angel (1928)
George Gershwin
USA
Cary Grant
UK
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Charade (1963)
Holiday (1938)
Oliver Hardy
USA
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
Our Relations (1936)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Jean Harlow
USA
Best movies:
City Lights (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Hell's Angels (1930)
Katharine Hepburn
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Billie Holiday
USA
J. Edgar Hoover
USA
Best movies:
The FBI Story (1959)
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) - a.f.
Bob Hope
UK
Best movies:
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Walter Huston
Canada
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Al Jolson
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Boris Karloff
UK
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Ruby Keeler
Canada
Best movies:
Dames (1934)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)