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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1940
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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)

Norma Shearer
As Self

George Arliss
As Self (archive footage)

Marie Dressler
As Self (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore
As Self (archive footage)

Helen Hayes
As Self (archive footage)

Fredric March
As Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn
As Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton
As Self

Claudette Colbert
As Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable
As Self (archive footage)

Shirley Temple
As Self (archive footage)

Irvin S. Cobb
As Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis
As Self

Irving Thalberg
As Self (archive footage)

Luise Rainer
As Self (archive footage)

Paul Muni
As Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy
As Self

W.C. Fields
As Self (archive footage)

Mack Sennett
As Self (archive footage)

Edgar Bergen
As Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck
As Self

Douglas Fairbanks
As Self (archive footage)

Deanna Durbin
As Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney
As Self

Walt Disney
As Self (archive footage)

Hal B. Wallis
As Self (archive footage)

George Bernard Shaw
As Self (archive footage)

James Stewart
As Self

Elsa Lanchester
As Self

Jean Hersholt
As Self

Hedy Lamarr
As Self

Gene Markey
As Self

Melvyn Douglas
As Self

Helen Gahagan
As Self

Irving Pichel
As Self

Vivien Leigh
As Self

David O. Selznick
As Self

May Robson
As Self

Olivia de Havilland
As Self
John Hay Whitney
As Self

Louella Parsons
As Self
Harry Martin
As Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)

Hedda Hopper
As Self

John Carroll
As Self

Jack L. Warner
As Self
Harry M. Warner
As Self

Ann Rutherford
As Self

Virginia Bruce
As Self
J. Walter Ruben
As Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
As Self

Elsa Maxwell
As Self

Laurence Olivier
As Self
E.J. Mannix
As Self

Judy Garland
As Self

George Raft
As Self
Walter Wanger
As Self

Frank Capra
As Self

Robert Donat
As Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel
As Self

Thomas Mitchell
As Self

Fay Bainter
As Self

Victor Fleming
As Self

Mervyn LeRoy
As Self

Sinclair Lewis
As Self

Lewis R. Foster
As Self
Gordon Hollingshead
As Self

Hamilton Luske
As Self

Bob Hope
As Self - Master of Ceremonies

E.Y. Harburg
As Self

Harold Arlen
As Self

William Cameron Menzies
As Self
Herbert T. Kalmus
As Self
Hal C. Kern
As Self
James E. Newcom
As Self

Ernest Haller
As Self
Ray Rennahan
As Self
Bernard B. Brown
As Self
Fred Sersen
As Self
Lyle R. Wheeler
As Self
Edmund H. Hansen
As Self

Herbert Stothart
As Self
More
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Rich Hill
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Love, Marilyn
Seduced and Abandoned
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The Class of ‘92
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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A Decade Under the Influence
Directed by John Ford
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Champs
I Know That Voice
Iverson
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
La Classe américaine
And the Oscar Goes To...
Music by Prudence
Wings: Grandeur in the Sky
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
Restoring the Power and Beauty of 'Wings'
Butterflies Are Free
The Wager
California Suite
In & Out
A Star Is Born
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Best Actress
And The Oscar Goes To...
Visas and Virtue
La grande menzogna
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King of the Jews