Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Release: 1940-07-31
·Runtime: 17m
·★ 6.5
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
as Self (archive footage)
Elsa Lanchester
as Self
Fay Bainter
as Self
Lewis R. Foster
as Self
Warner Baxter
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Laughton
as Self
Claudette Colbert
as Self (archive footage)
Irving Pichel
as Self
William Cameron Menzies
as Self
Mary Pickford
as Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
as Self
Shirley Temple
as Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw
as Self (archive footage)
Ann Rutherford
as Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Self
Frank Capra
as Self
Robert Donat
as Self (archive footage)
Irvin S. Cobb
as Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
as Self
Vivien Leigh
as Self
Louella Parsons
as Self
Ernest Haller
as Self
W.C. Fields
as Self (archive footage)
Victor Fleming
as Self
Mervyn LeRoy
as Self
E.Y. Harburg
as Self
George Arliss
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Muni
as Self (archive footage)
Harold Arlen
as Self
Bette Davis
as Self
Luise Rainer
as Self (archive footage)
Deanna Durbin
as Self (archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
as Self
Melvyn Douglas
as Self
Hattie McDaniel
as Self
Carey Wilson
as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
Jack L. Warner
as Self
Laurence Olivier
as Self
George Raft
as Self
James Stewart
as Self
Jean Hersholt
as Self
Elsa Maxwell
as Self
Judy Garland
as Self
Thomas Mitchell
as Self
Sinclair Lewis
as Self
Bob Hope
as Self - Master of Ceremonies
Katharine Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
as Self (archive footage)
Fredric March
as Self (archive footage)
Hal B. Wallis
as Self (archive footage)
Helen Gahagan
as Self
Herbert Stothart
as Self
David O. Selznick
as Self
May Robson
as Self
Janet Gaynor
as Self (archive footage)
Emil Jannings
as Self (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper
as Self
Hamilton Luske
as Self
Clark Gable
as Self (archive footage)
Irving Thalberg
as Self (archive footage)
Edgar Bergen
as Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
as Self
John Carroll
as Self
Virginia Bruce
as Self
Marie Dressler
as Self (archive footage)
Helen Hayes
as Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
as Self (archive footage)
Mack Sennett
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Markey
as Self
Olivia de Havilland
as Self