Going Hollywood: The '30s

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.

Full Cast of Going Hollywood: The '30s

Robert Preston

Gracie Allen

as (archive footage)

George Arliss

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Arthur

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Fred Astaire

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Mischa Auer

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George Bancroft

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John Barrymore

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Matthew Beard

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Wallace Beery

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Constance Bennett

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Joan Blondell

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Eric Blore

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Humphrey Bogart

as (archive footage)

William Boyd

as (archive footage)

Charles Boyer

as (archive footage)

Joe E. Brown

as Self (archive footage)

George Burns

as (archive footage)

Spring Byington

as (archive footage)

James Cagney

as (archive footage)

John Carradine

as (archive footage)

Jack Carson

as (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier

as (archive footage)

Berton Churchill

as (archive footage)

Joe Cobb

as (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

as (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

as (archive footage)

Crown Prince Hohenzollern

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

as (archive footage)

Cecil B. DeMille

as Self (archive footage)

Andy Devine

as (archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich

as Self (archive footage)

Lee Duncan

as Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Durante

as (archive footage)

W.C. Fields

as (archive footage)

Larry Fine

as Larry (archive footage)

Pat Flaherty

as (archive footage)

Henry Fonda

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Clark Gable

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Charley Grapewin

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Oliver Hardy

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Jean Harlow

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Ted Healy

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Samuel S. Hinds

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Tim Holt

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Darla Hood

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Herbert Hoover

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Curly Howard

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Leslie Howard

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Moe Howard

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Walter Huston

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Selmer Jackson

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Chic Johnson

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Al Jolson

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Boris Karloff

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Buster Keaton

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Hedy Lamarr

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Harry Langdon

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Stan Laurel

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Carole Lombard

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Walter Long

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Edmund Lowe

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Bela Lugosi

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Fredric March

as Self (archive footage)

Groucho Marx

as (archive footage)

Harpo Marx

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George McFarland

as (archive footage)

Donald Meek

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Charles Middleton

as (archive footage)

Thomas Mitchell

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Grace Moore

as Self (archive footage)

Alan Mowbray

as (archive footage)

Ole Olsen

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Lynne Overman

as Self (archive footage)

Eugene Pallette

as (archive footage)

Franklin Pangborn

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Louise Platt

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Dick Powell

as (archive footage)

William Powell

as (archive footage)

Rin-Tin-Tin

as Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

as (archive footage)

Will Rogers

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Babe Ruth

as (archive footage)

Sylvia Sidney

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Carl Switzer

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Shirley Temple

as (archive footage)

Claire Trevor

as (archive footage)

Tom Tyler

as (archive footage)

Rudy Vallee

as (archive footage)

John Wayne

as (archive footage)

Johnny Weissmüller

as Self (archive footage)

Mae West

as Self (archive footage)

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