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Status
Released
Release
1998
Runtime
55m
Available options inUS
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
23 Cast Members
Roddy McDowall
Narrator (voice)
Marc Wanamaker
Self
Christopher Sanders
Joy Noe
Mary Pickford
Allan Viner
L. Michael Wells
Richard Barthelmess
The Yellow Man (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Billy Compton
Self (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)
George Eastman
Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
Self (archive footage)
Robert Harron
Self (archive footage)
Florence Lawrence
Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self / Various roles (archive footage)