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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

1h 9m

7.50

Documentary, TV Movie

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This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)

Vivien Leigh

Self (archive footage)

Olivia de Havilland

Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland

Self (archive footage)

Leonard Maltin

Self

Errol Flynn

Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Self (archive footage)

F. X. Feeney

Self

Molly Haskell

Self

George Cukor

Self (archive footage)

Rudy Behlmer

Self

Francis Lederer

Self (archive footage)

Joseph McBride

Self

Frank Capra

Self (archive footage)

Howard Hawks

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Maureen O'Hara

Self (archive footage)

Claire Trevor

Self (archive footage)

Daniel Selznick

Self

Ann Rutherford

Self (archive footage)

Fred Astaire

Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

Self (archive footage)

Charles Boyer

Self (archive footage)

James Cagney

Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Robert Donat

Self (archive footage)

Irene Dunne

Self (archive footage)

John Ford

Self (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

Self (archive footage)

Greer Garson

Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant

Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope

Self (archive footage)

Charles Laughton

Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

Self (archive footage)

Thomas Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

Self (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

David O. Selznick

Self (archive footage)

George Stevens

Self (archive footage)

James Stewart

Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

Self (archive footage)

Lana Turner

Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner

Self (archive footage)

John Wayne

Self (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Self (archive footage)

A.C. Lyles

Self

Thomas Schatz

Self

Scott Eyman

Self

Jeanine Basinger

Self

Aubrey Solomon

Self

Louis B. Mayer

Self (archive footage)

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