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.
Robert Preston
Self - Host
Gracie Allen
(archive footage)
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Jean Arthur
Fred Astaire
Mischa Auer
George Bancroft
John Barrymore
Matthew Beard
Wallace Beery
Constance Bennett
Joan Blondell
Eric Blore
Humphrey Bogart
William Boyd
Charles Boyer
Joe E. Brown
George Burns
Spring Byington
James Cagney
John Carradine
Jack Carson
Charlie Chaplin
Maurice Chevalier
Berton Churchill
Joe Cobb
Gary Cooper
Joan Crawford
Bing Crosby
Crown Prince Hohenzollern
Bette Davis
Cecil B. DeMille
Andy Devine
Marlene Dietrich
Lee Duncan
Jimmy Durante
W.C. Fields
Larry Fine
Larry (archive footage)
Pat Flaherty
Henry Fonda
Clark Gable
Charley Grapewin
Oliver Hardy
Jean Harlow
Ted Healy
Samuel S. Hinds
Tim Holt
Darla Hood
Herbert Hoover
Curly Howard
Leslie Howard
Moe Howard
Walter Huston
Selmer Jackson
Chic Johnson
Al Jolson
Boris Karloff
Buster Keaton
Hedy Lamarr
Harry Langdon
Stan Laurel
Carole Lombard
Walter Long
Edmund Lowe
Bela Lugosi
Fredric March
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
George McFarland
Donald Meek
Charles Middleton
Thomas Mitchell
Grace Moore
Alan Mowbray
Ole Olsen
Lynne Overman
Eugene Pallette
Franklin Pangborn
Louise Platt
Dick Powell
William Powell
Rin-Tin-Tin
Ginger Rogers
Will Rogers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Babe Ruth
Sylvia Sidney
Carl Switzer
Shirley Temple
Claire Trevor
Tom Tyler
Rudy Vallee
John Wayne
Johnny Weissmüller
Mae West
Julian Schlossberg
Director, Producer
Charles Badaracco
Writer
Beverly Irby
Producer
Jun 7, 2014
Nov 13, 1985
Sep 6, 1971
Jun 8, 2018
Dec 1, 2013
Sep 10, 2022
Sep 22, 2016
Jul 12, 1990
