With an after film discussion in the lobby with refreshments
PG | 1h 43min | Documentary
A look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips featuring James Cagney as an American Everyman.
Director: Philippe Mora
Writer: Philippe Mora
Starring: As themselves in archival footage as well as in Hollywood movies of the time:
Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Fred Astaire, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Irving Berlin, Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Charles Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Bing Crosby, John Dillinger, Walt Disney, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Herbert Hoover, Walter Huston, Lyndon Johnson, Al Jolson, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joe Louis, Bela Lugosi, Groucho Marx, Richard Nixon, Jesse Owens, Tyrone Power, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Max Schmeling, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Harry S. Truman, Rudy Vallee, Orson Welles, and others.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4yT0KAMyo
