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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
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.
Length 17 minutes
Actors
Carey Wilson | Janet Gaynor | Emil Jannings | Mary Pickford | Warner Baxter | Norma Shearer | George Arliss | Marie Dressler | Lionel Barrymore | Helen Hayes | Fredric March | Katharine Hepburn | Charles Laughton | Claudette Colbert | Clark Gable | Shirley Temple | Irvin S. Cobb | Bette Davis | Irving Thalberg | Luise Rainer | Paul Muni | Spencer Tracy | W.C. Fields | Mack Sennett | Edgar Bergen | Darryl F. Zanuck | Douglas Fairbanks | Deanna Durbin | Mickey Rooney | Walt Disney | Hal B. Wallis | George Bernard Shaw | James Stewart | Elsa Lanchester | Jean Hersholt | Hedy Lamarr | Gene Markey | Melvyn Douglas | Helen Gahagan | Irving Pichel | Vivien Leigh | David O. Selznick | May Robson | Olivia de Havilland | John Hay Whitney | Louella Parsons | Harry Martin | Hedda Hopper | John Carroll | Jack L. Warner | Harry M. Warner | Ann Rutherford | Virginia Bruce | J. Walter Ruben | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Elsa Maxwell | Laurence Olivier | E.J. Mannix | Judy Garland | George Raft | Walter Wanger | Frank Capra | Robert Donat | Hattie McDaniel | Thomas Mitchell | Fay Bainter | Victor Fleming | Mervyn LeRoy | Sinclair Lewis | Lewis R. Foster | Gordon Hollingshead | Hamilton Luske | Bob Hope | E.Y. Harburg | Harold Arlen | William Cameron Menzies | Herbert T. Kalmus | Hal C. Kern | James E. Newcom | Ernest Haller | Ray Rennahan | Bernard B. Brown | Fred Sersen | Lyle R. Wheeler | Edmund H. Hansen | Herbert Stothart