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Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

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Cast  

John Barrymore ... Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage)
Harold Bauer ... Self - pianist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage)
Warner Baxter ... The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928)) (archive footage)
Charles Boyer ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
John Bunny ... Self (archive footage)
Harry Carey ... Actor in silent films (archive footage)
Theodore Case Theodore Case ... Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
Benoît-Constant Coquelin Benoît-Constant Coquelin ... Cyrano de Bergerac (clip from Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)) (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite ... Narrator (voice)
Thomas A. Edison ... Self (archive footage)
W.C. Fields ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
Cary Grant ... Self (archive footage)
Al Jolson ... Jakie Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage)
Giovanni Martinelli ... Self
Paul Muni ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic ... Themselves (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage)
Wheeler Oakman ... 'Hawk' Miller (archive footage)
Edward G. Robinson ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
Eugen Sandow ... Self (archive footage)
George Bernard Shaw ... Self (archive footage)
Blanche Sweet ... Self
Spencer Tracy ... Self (voice) (archive sound)
Henry B. Walthall ... Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
Mae West ... Lady Lou (sound bite from She Done Him Wrong (1933)) (voice) (archive sound)
Efrem Zimbalist Sr. ... Self - violinist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage)
Mary Astor ... Adriana della Varnese (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eugenie Besserer ... Sara Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Guy D'Ennery ... Tommy (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Dugan ... Sam (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Glenn Ford ... Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr. (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Hadley Henry Hadley ... Self - conductor (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brigitte Helm ... La baronne Sandorf (clip from L'argent (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Livingston ... The Woman from the City (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Montagu Love ... Count Giano Donati (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Terry Moore ... Terry Ramsey (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
George O'Brien ... The Man (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bodil Rosing ... The Maid (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ben Turpin ... Actor in silent films (archive footage) (uncredited)

Produced by 

Burton Benjamin ... producer
Isaac Kleinerman ... associate producer

Music by 

George Kleinsinger

Editing by 

Aram Boyajian

Production Management 

Robert Asman ... production manager

Sound Department 

Dick Vorisek ... sound recordist (as Richard Vorisek)

Editorial Department 

Marshall Flaum ... story editor

Music Department 

George Antheil ... composer: theme music
Alfredo Antonini ... conductor

Additional Crew 

Don Miller ... researcher

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