Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

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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Cast

	Carey Wilson	As: Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
	Janet Gaynor	As: Self (archive footage)
	Emil Jannings	As: Self (archive footage)
	Mary Pickford	As: Self (archive footage)
	Warner Baxter	As: Self (archive footage)

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Certification:	Unknown

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 31 July 1940

Country: US

Runtime: 17m

Company Credits

Company: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

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Cast

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