The Golden Twenties (1950)

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Cast

Narrator
Robert Q. Lewis
Narrator
F Frederick Lewis Allen
Self (archive footage)
Al Capone
Self (archive footage)
Enrico Caruso
Self (archive footage)
Irene Castle
(archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
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
Narrator
E Elmer Davis
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
George Gershwin
Self (archive footage)
Texas Guinan
Self (archive footage)
W 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)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Narrator
R Red Barber
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
Narrator
A Allen Prescott
Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage)
F Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Adolph Zukor
Self (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Irving Berlin
Self (archive footage)
W William Jennings Bryan
Self (archive footage)
Billie Burke
Self (archive footage)
Vilma Banky

Crew

Writer
F Frederick Lewis Allen
Story
S Samuel Wood Bryant
Producer
R Richard De Rochemont
Co-Producer
S Samuel Wood Bryant
Editor
W Whitfield Davis
Editor
L Leo Zochling