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
Tyrone Power
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love Is News (1937)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
George Raft
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Scarface (1932)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Paul Robeson
USA
Best movies:
Show Boat (1936)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Edward G. Robinson
Romania
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Will Rogers
USA
Best movies:
Judge Priest (1934)
Mickey Rooney
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Max Schmeling
German Empire
Best movies:
Barbara Stanwyck
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Ball of Fire (1941)
James Stewart
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rear Window (1954)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Shirley Temple
USA
Best movies:
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Heidi (1937)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fury (1936)
Rudy Vallee
USA
Best movies:
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Ethel Waters
USA
Best movies:
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Pinky (1949)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
John Wayne
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
El Dorado (1966)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Johnny Weissmuller
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Orson Welles
USA
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series) - narrator
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Mae West
USA
Best movies:
I'm No Angel (1933)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Sextette (1978)
Fay Wray
Canada
Best movies:
King Kong (1933)
Un cadavre au dessert (1976) - a.f.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Gerald Ford
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
All the President's Men (1976) - a.f.
Frost/Nixon (2008)