Directed by:
Philippe MoraCast:
Marlene Dietrich, Benny Goodman, Fred Astaire, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Constance Bennett, Jack Benny, Busby Berkeley, Irving Berlin, Herman Bing (more)Plots(1)
A documentary on the 1930's with contemporary newsreels, Hollywood clips and an assortment of depression era film shorts. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Benny Goodman
USA
Best movies:
A Song Is Born (1948)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Syncopation (1942)
Fred Astaire
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999) - a.f.
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Warner Baxter
USA
Best movies:
West of Zanzibar (1928)
42nd Street (1933)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Wallace Beery
USA
Best movies:
Behind the Door (1919)
Beggars of Life (1928)
Robin Hood (1922)
Constance Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Topper (1937)
Jack Benny
USA
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
Busby Berkeley
USA
Best movies:
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Irving Berlin
Russian Empire
Herman Bing
German Empire
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
Dumbo (1941)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Joan Blondell
USA
Best movies:
Grease (1978)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Enemies of the Public (1931)
Humphrey Bogart
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Casablanca (1942)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Fanny Brice
USA
Best movies:
Zelig (1983) - a.f.
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Joe E. Brown
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
James Cagney
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
One, Two, Three (1961)
White Heat (1949)
Cab Calloway
USA
Best movies:
Blues Brothers (1980)
Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (1996) (music video)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Eddie Cantor
USA
Best movies:
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
George Chandler
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Charlie Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
The Kid (1921)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Mae Clarke
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Enemies of the Public (1931)