Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

0h 17m

6.5(3 votes)

Documentary

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.

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86 members

Writing

Carey Wilson

Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

Acting

Janet Gaynor

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Emil Jannings

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Mary Pickford

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Warner Baxter

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Norma Shearer

Self

Acting

George Arliss

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Marie Dressler

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Lionel Barrymore

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Helen Hayes

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Fredric March

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Katharine Hepburn

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Charles Laughton

Self

Acting

Claudette Colbert

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Shirley Temple

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Irvin S. Cobb

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Bette Davis

Self

Production

Irving Thalberg

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Luise Rainer

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Paul Muni

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Spencer Tracy

Self

Acting

W.C. Fields

Self (archive footage)

Production

Mack Sennett

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Edgar Bergen

Self (archive footage)

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck

Self

No Image

Acting

Douglas Fairbanks

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Deanna Durbin

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Mickey Rooney

Self

Production

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Production

Hal B. Wallis

Self (archive footage)

Writing

George Bernard Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Acting

James Stewart

Self

Acting

Elsa Lanchester

Self

Acting

Jean Hersholt

Self

Acting

Hedy Lamarr

Self

Writing

Gene Markey

Self

Acting

Melvyn Douglas

Self

Acting

Helen Gahagan

Self

Acting

Irving Pichel

Self

Acting

Vivien Leigh

Self

Production

David O. Selznick

Self

Acting

May Robson

Self

Acting

Olivia de Havilland

Self

Acting

John Hay Whitney

Self

No Image

Acting

Louella Parsons

Self

Acting

Harry Martin

Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

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Acting

Hedda Hopper

Self

Acting

John Carroll

Self

Production

Jack L. Warner

Self

Acting

Harry M. Warner

Self

No Image

Acting

Ann Rutherford

Self

Acting

Virginia Bruce

Self

Directing

J. Walter Ruben

Self

No Image

Acting

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Acting

Elsa Maxwell

Self

Acting

Laurence Olivier

Self

Production

E.J. Mannix

Self

No Image

Acting

Judy Garland

Self

Acting

George Raft

Self

Production

Walter Wanger

Self

No Image

Directing

Frank Capra

Self

Acting

Robert Donat

Self (archive footage)

Acting

Hattie McDaniel

Self

Acting

Thomas Mitchell

Self

Acting

Fay Bainter

Self

Directing

Victor Fleming

Self

Directing

Mervyn LeRoy

Self

Writing

Sinclair Lewis

Self

Writing

Lewis R. Foster

Self

Production

Gordon Hollingshead

Self

No Image

Directing

Hamilton Luske

Self

Acting

Bob Hope

Self - Master of Ceremonies

Writing

E.Y. Harburg

Self

Sound

Harold Arlen

Self

Art

William Cameron Menzies

Self

Production

Herbert T. Kalmus

Self

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Editing

Hal C. Kern

Self

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Editing

James E. Newcom

Self

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Camera

Ernest Haller

Self

Camera

Ray Rennahan

Self

No Image

Sound

Bernard B. Brown

Self

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Visual Effects

Fred Sersen

Self

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Art

Lyle R. Wheeler

Self

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Sound

Edmund H. Hansen

Self

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Sound

Herbert Stothart

Self

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