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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards( 1940)

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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.

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      Carey Wilson

      Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

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      Janet Gaynor

      Self (archive footage)

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      Emil Jannings

      Self (archive footage)

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      Mary Pickford

      Self (archive footage)

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      Warner Baxter

      Self (archive footage)

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      Norma Shearer

      Self

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      George Arliss

      Self (archive footage)

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      Marie Dressler

      Self (archive footage)

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      Lionel Barrymore

      Self (archive footage)

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      Helen Hayes

      Self (archive footage)

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      Fredric March

      Self (archive footage)

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      Katharine Hepburn

      Self (archive footage)

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      Charles Laughton

      Self

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      Claudette Colbert

      Self (archive footage)

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      Clark Gable

      Self (archive footage)

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      Shirley Temple

      Self (archive footage)

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      Irvin S. Cobb

      Self (archive footage)

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      Bette Davis

      Self

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      Irving Thalberg

      Self (archive footage)

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      Luise Rainer

      Self (archive footage)

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      Paul Muni

      Self (archive footage)

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      Spencer Tracy

      Self

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      W.C. Fields

      Self (archive footage)

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      Mack Sennett

      Self (archive footage)

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      Edgar Bergen

      Self (archive footage)

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      Darryl F. Zanuck

      Self

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      Douglas Fairbanks

      Self (archive footage)

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      Deanna Durbin

      Self (archive footage)

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      Mickey Rooney

      Self

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      Walt Disney

      Self (archive footage)

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      Hal B. Wallis

      Self (archive footage)

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      George Bernard Shaw

      Self (archive footage)

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      James Stewart

      Self

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      Elsa Lanchester

      Self

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      Jean Hersholt

      Self

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      Hedy Lamarr

      Self

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      Gene Markey

      Self

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      Melvyn Douglas

      Self

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      Helen Gahagan

      Self

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      Irving Pichel

      Self

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      Vivien Leigh

      Self

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      David O. Selznick

      Self

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      May Robson

      Self

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      Olivia de Havilland

      Self

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      John Hay Whitney

      Self

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      Louella Parsons

      Self

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      Harry Martin

      Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

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      Hedda Hopper

      Self

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      John Carroll

      Self

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      Jack L. Warner

      Self

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      Harry M. Warner

      Self

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      Ann Rutherford

      Self

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      Virginia Bruce

      Self

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      J. Walter Ruben

      Self

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      Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

      Self

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      Elsa Maxwell

      Self

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      Laurence Olivier

      Self

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      E.J. Mannix

      Self

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      Judy Garland

      Self

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      George Raft

      Self

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      Walter Wanger

      Self

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      Frank Capra

      Self

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      Robert Donat

      Self (archive footage)

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      Hattie McDaniel

      Self

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      Thomas Mitchell

      Self

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      Fay Bainter

      Self

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      Victor Fleming

      Self

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      Mervyn LeRoy

      Self

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      Sinclair Lewis

      Self

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      Lewis R. Foster

      Self

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      Gordon Hollingshead

      Self

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      Hamilton Luske

      Self

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      Bob Hope

      Self - Master of Ceremonies

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      E.Y. Harburg

      Self

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      Harold Arlen

      Self

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      William Cameron Menzies

      Self

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      Herbert T. Kalmus

      Self

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      Hal C. Kern

      Self

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      James E. Newcom

      Self

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      Ernest Haller

      Self

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      Ray Rennahan

      Self

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      Bernard B. Brown

      Self

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      Fred Sersen

      Self

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      Lyle R. Wheeler

      Self

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      Edmund H. Hansen

      Self

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      Herbert Stothart

      Self

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    Status

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    Original Language

    English

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