Tom Kane

Narrator (voice)

Sydney Guilaroff

Self - Key MGM Hair Designer (archive footage)

J.J. Cohn

Self - MGM Executive (archive footage) (as Joseph J. Cohn)

Joan Crawford

Self / Flaemmchen (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

John Barrymore

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Lew Ayres

Self (archive footage)

Paul Bern

Self (archive footage)

William H. Daniels

Self (archive footage)

Marion Davies

(archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Durante

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)

Cedric Gibbons

Self (archive footage)

Edmund Goulding

Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

Self (archive footage)

Jean Hersholt

Self (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage)

Lola Lane

Self (archive footage)

Louis B. Mayer

Self (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery

Self (archive footage)

Conrad Nagel

Self (archive footage)

Maureen O'Sullivan

Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

Self (archive footage)

Norma Shearer

Self (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

Self (archive footage)

Irving Thalberg

Self (archive footage)