Robert Q. Lewis

Narrator

Frederick Lewis Allen

Narrator

Elmer Davis

Narrator

Red Barber

Narrator

Allen Prescott

Narrator

John Barrymore

Self (archive footage)

Irving Berlin

Self (archive footage)

William Jennings Bryan

Self (archive footage)

Billie Burke

Self (archive footage)

Vilma Banky

Self (archive footage)

Al Capone

Self (archive footage)

Enrico Caruso

Self (archive footage)

Irene Castle

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

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Joseph Conrad

Self (archive footage)

Calvin Coolidge

Self (archive footage)

Dolores Costello

Self (archive footage)

Clarence Darrow

Self (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey

Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

Self (archive footage)

George Gershwin

Self (archive footage)

Texas Guinan

Self (archive footage)

Warren G. Harding

Self (archive footage)

Herbert Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Harry Houdini

Self (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Self (archive footage)

Harry Lauder

Self (archive footage)

Pola Negri

Self (archive footage)

Sergey Rachmaninoff

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Lillian Case Russell

Self (archive footage)

Babe Ruth

Self (archive footage)

Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Self (archive footage)

Gloria Swanson

Self (archive footage)

Marion Talley

Self (archive footage)

Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

Rudy Vallee

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Weissmüller

Self (archive footage)

Paul Whiteman

Self (archive footage)