Twenty Years After (1944)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Top billed cast
- Frank WhitbeckNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bud Abbott(archive footage)
Renée Adorée(archive footage)
June Allyson(archive footage)
Fred Astaire(archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore(archive footage)
Wallace Beery(archive footage)
Turhan Bey(archive footage)
Lucille Bremer(archive footage)
Francis X. Bushman(archive footage)
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