Some of the Best : Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)

USA, 42 min
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Basic facts

Original title Some of the Best : Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
Film type Short
Category Fiction
Director
Producer
Production country
  • USA
Production company
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Dialogue
  • English
Swedish release 1949-12

Cast

Lionel Barrymore
programvärd

Renée Adorée

Mae Murray

John Gilbert

Greta Garbo

Ramon Novarro

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Titles

Original title
  • Some of the Best : Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
Swedish release title
  • MGM:s jubileumskavalkad
Alternative title
  • M.G.M.:s jubileumskavalkad

Crew

Director
Producer
Music
Film Editor
Orchestration
Narrator

Cast

Lionel Barrymore programvärd
- Medverkande ur filmklipp:
Renée Adorée
Mae Murray
John Gilbert
Greta Garbo
Ramon Novarro
William Haines
Lon Chaney
Eleanor Boardman
Edwina Booth
Harry Carey
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Marie Dressler
Jean Harlow
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Jeanette MacDonald
Luise Rainer
Paul Muni
Spencer Tracy
Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
Ray Bolger
Jack Haley
Cary Grant
Katharine Hepburn
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
Ronald Colman
Elizabeth Taylor
Margaret O'Brien
Charles Coburn
Leon Ames
Fred Astaire
Ethel Barrymore
Wallace Beery
Spring Byington
James Craig
Donald Crisp
Arlene Dahl
Gloria DeHaven
Jimmy Durante
Errol Flynn
Ava Gardner
Betty Garrett
Kathryn Grayson
Edmund Gwenn
Van Heflin
John Hodiak
Lena Horne
Claude Jarman Jr.
Van Johnson
Jennifer Jones
Buster Keaton
Howard Keel
Gene Kelly
Angela Lansbury
Mario Lanza
Lassie hund
Janet Leigh
Ann Miller
Frank Morgan
Jules Munshin
Frank Sinatra
Red Skelton
Ann Sothern
Dean Stockwell
Lewis S. Stone (as Lewis Stone)
Vera-Ellen
Esther Williams
Robert Young

Companies

Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. controlled by Loew's Inc.
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm) AB Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1949

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number 76133
Date 1949-11
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Original length 1130 meters
Censored length 1126 meters


Technical specifications

Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Sound type Sound
Sound system Western Electric Recording
Colour type Black and white + colour
Carrier type 35 mm
Frames per second 24
Length in metres 1150 meter
Length in minutes 42 min


Release dates

First showing 1949-06-23 USA 42 min
Release in Sweden 1949-12 Sweden 41 min

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