Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

Everybody wants Oscar!

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 and more, with host Bob Hope.

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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

J

John Hay Whitney

Self

Louella Parsons

Self

H

Harry Martin

Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

Hedda Hopper

Self

John Carroll

Self

Jack L. Warner

Self

H

Harry M. Warner

Self

Ann Rutherford

Self

Virginia Bruce

Self

J

J. Walter Ruben

Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Elsa Maxwell

Self

Laurence Olivier

Self

E

E.J. Mannix

Self

Judy Garland

Self

George Raft

Self

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