The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007) | Full Cast

Mark Hunt

Narratorvoice

Ron Hutchinson

Self - The Vitaphone Project

Scott Eyman

Self - Author 'The Speed of Sound'

Rudy Behlmer

Self - Film Historian

Jack Stanley

Self - Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum

Robert Gitt

Self - UCLA Film & Television Archive

Emily Thompson

Self - Professor of History, Princeton University

Jonathan Kuntz

Self - UCLA Film Historian

Jack Warner Jr.

Self - Son of Jack L. WarnerarchiveFootage

A.C. Lyles

Self - Producer, Paramount Pictures

Ben Burtt

Self - Sound Designer

Leonard Maltin

Self - Film Critic

Eileen McHugh

Self - Director, Case Research Lab Museum

Vince Giordano

Self - Band Leader, 'Vince Giordano's Nighthawks'

Thelma White

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Rose Marie

Self - Broadway

Dane A. Davis

Self - Movie Sound Designer

Sanford Green

Self - Vitaphone Studio Musician

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Self - ActorarchiveFootage

Mickey Rooney

Self - Actor

Anita Page

Self - ActressarchiveFootage

Leatrice Joy Gilbert

Self - Daughter of John Gilbert

Mark Vieira

Self - Author, 'Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy'

Suzanne Lloyd Hayes

Self - Granddaughter of Harold Lloyd

Gracie Allen

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John Barrymore

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Eubie Blake

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George Burns

George the BoyfriendarchiveFootage

Eddie Cantor

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Anna Case

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Theodore Case

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Charles Chaplin

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Calvin Coolidge

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Lee De Forest

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William K.L. Dickson

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Thomas A. Edison

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Mischa Elman

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The Foy Family

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Clark Gable

McKinley B. ThompsonarchiveFootage

Greta Garbo

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John Gilbert

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Hazel Green

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D.W. Griffith

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Adolf Hitler

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Eugene Howard

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Willie Howard

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Al Jolson

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Hedy Lamarr

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Sam Lee

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Giovanni Martinelli

Canio in 'Pagliacci'archiveFootage

Abbey Mitchell

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Mary Pickford

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Georgie Price

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Al Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw

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Monroe Silver

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Roy Smeck

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Charles R. Taggart

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Sol Violinsky

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Gus Visser

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Mrs. Thomas Ward

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