The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936)
Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.
Top billed cast
Olivia de Havilland
Gale Sondergaard
Anita Louise
Fredric March
Donald Woods- Sheridan Gibney
Louis Hayward
Mervyn LeRoy
Steffi Duna
Claude Rains
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