About the film
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Release Date: July 31, 1940
| Year | : | 1940 |
| Slogan | : | «» |
| Genres | : | Documentary |
| Production Companies | : | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| Director | : | |
| Producers | : | Gordon Hollingshead |
| Writers | : | De Leon Anthony |
| RunTime | : | 17 mins. |
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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Main Actors
Carey Wilson
Character : Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Janet Gaynor
Character : Self (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
Character : Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Character : Self (archive footage)
Warner Baxter
Character : Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Character : Self
George Arliss
Character : Self (archive footage)
Marie Dressler
Character : Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
Character : Self (archive footage)
Helen Hayes
Character : Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
Character : Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Character : Self (archive footage)
Charles Laughton
Character : Self
Claudette Colbert
Character : Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Character : Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
Character : Self (archive footage)
Irvin S. Cobb
Character : Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Character : Self
Irving Thalberg
Character : Self (archive footage)
Luise Rainer
Character : Self (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Character : Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Character : Self
W.C. Fields
Character : Self (archive footage)
Mack Sennett
Character : Self (archive footage)
Edgar Bergen
Character : Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck
Character : Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Character : Self (archive footage)
Deanna Durbin
Character : Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
Character : Self
Walt Disney
Character : Self (archive footage)
Hal B. Wallis
Character : Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw
Character : Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Character : Self
Elsa Lanchester
Character : Self
Jean Hersholt
Character : Self
Hedy Lamarr
Character : Self
Gene Markey
Character : Self
Melvyn Douglas
Character : Self
Helen Gahagan
Character : Self
Irving Pichel
Character : Self
Vivien Leigh
Character : Self
David O. Selznick
Character : Self
May Robson
Character : Self
Olivia de Havilland
Character : Self
John Hay Whitney
Character : Self
Louella Parsons
Character : Self
Harry Martin
Character : Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)
Hedda Hopper
Character : Self
John Carroll
Character : Self
Jack L. Warner
Character : Self
Harry M. Warner
Character : Self
Ann Rutherford
Character : Self
Virginia Bruce
Character : Self
J. Walter Ruben
Character : Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Character : Self
Elsa Maxwell
Character : Self
Laurence Olivier
Character : Self
E.J. Mannix
Character : Self
Judy Garland
Character : Self
George Raft
Character : Self
Walter Wanger
Character : Self
Frank Capra
Character : Self
Robert Donat
Character : Self (archive footage)
Hattie McDaniel
Character : Self
Thomas Mitchell
Character : Self
Fay Bainter
Character : Self
Victor Fleming
Character : Self
Mervyn LeRoy
Character : Self
Sinclair Lewis
Character : Self
Lewis R. Foster
Character : Self
Gordon Hollingshead
Character : Self
Hamilton Luske
Character : Self
Bob Hope
Character : Self - Master of Ceremonies
E.Y. Harburg
Character : Self
Harold Arlen
Character : Self
William Cameron Menzies
Character : Self
Herbert T. Kalmus
Character : Self
Hal C. Kern
Character : Self
James E. Newcom
Character : Self
Ernest Haller
Character : Self
Ray Rennahan
Character : Self
Bernard B. Brown
Character : Self
Fred Sersen
Character : Self
Lyle R. Wheeler
Character : Self
Edmund H. Hansen
Character : Self
Herbert Stothart
Character : Self
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