Going Hollywood: The '30s
01/01/1984
1h 16m
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Cast
Robert Preston
Self - Host
Gracie Allen
(archive footage)
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Jean Arthur
(archive footage)
Fred Astaire
(archive footage)
Mischa Auer
(archive footage)
George Bancroft
(archive footage)
John Barrymore
(archive footage)
Matthew Beard
(archive footage)
Wallace Beery
(archive footage)
Constance Bennett
(archive footage)
Joan Blondell
(archive footage)
Eric Blore
(archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
(archive footage)
William Boyd
(archive footage)
Charles Boyer
(archive footage)
Joe E. Brown
Self (archive footage)
George Burns
(archive footage)
Spring Byington
(archive footage)
James Cagney
(archive footage)
John Carradine
(archive footage)
Jack Carson
(archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
(archive footage)
Berton Churchill
(archive footage)
Joe Cobb
(archive footage)
Gary Cooper
(archive footage)
Joan Crawford
(archive footage)
Bing Crosby
(archive footage)
Crown Prince Hohenzollern
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
(archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self (archive footage)
Andy Devine
(archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
Self (archive footage)
Lee Duncan
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
(archive footage)
W.C. Fields
(archive footage)
Larry Fine
Larry (archive footage)
Pat Flaherty
(archive footage)
Henry Fonda
(archive footage)
Clark Gable
(archive footage)
Charley Grapewin
(archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
(archive footage)
Jean Harlow
(archive footage)
Ted Healy
(archive footage)
Samuel S. Hinds
(archive footage)
Tim Holt
(archive footage)
Darla Hood
(archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
(archive footage)
Curly Howard
(archive footage)
Leslie Howard
(archive footage)
Moe Howard
(archive footage)
Walter Huston
(archive footage)
Selmer Jackson
(archive footage)
Chic Johnson
(archive footage)
Al Jolson
(archive footage)
Boris Karloff
(archive footage)
Buster Keaton
(archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
(archive footage)
Harry Langdon
(archive footage)
Stan Laurel
(archive footage)
Carole Lombard
(archive footage)
Walter Long
(archive footage)
Edmund Lowe
(archive footage)
Bela Lugosi
(archive footage)
Fredric March
Self (archive footage)
Groucho Marx
(archive footage)
Harpo Marx
(archive footage)
George McFarland
(archive footage)
Donald Meek
(archive footage)
Charles Middleton
(archive footage)
Thomas Mitchell
(archive footage)
Grace Moore
Self (archive footage)
Alan Mowbray
(archive footage)
Ole Olsen
(archive footage)
Lynne Overman
Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
(archive footage)
Franklin Pangborn
(archive footage)
Louise Platt
(archive footage)
Dick Powell
(archive footage)
William Powell
(archive footage)
Rin-Tin-Tin
Self (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
(archive footage)
Will Rogers
(archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(archive footage)
Babe Ruth
(archive footage)
Sylvia Sidney
(archive footage)
Carl Switzer
(archive footage)
Shirley Temple
(archive footage)
Claire Trevor
(archive footage)
Tom Tyler
(archive footage)
Rudy Vallee
(archive footage)
John Wayne
(archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller
Self (archive footage)
Mae West
Self (archive footage)
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