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Film / 1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
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HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Cast
Liev SchreiberSelf - Narrator (voice)
John G. AvildsenSelf (archive footage)
Lauren BacallSelf (archive footage)
Humphrey BogartSelf (archive footage)
Charlie ChaplinSelf (archive footage)
Robert ChartoffSelf (archive footage)
Jackie CooperSelf (archive footage)
Billy CrystalSelf (archive footage)
Tony DanzaSelf (archive footage)
Ruby DeeSelf (archive footage)
Jack DempseySelf (archive footage)
Walt DisneySelf (archive footage)
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Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage)
Peter GentSelf (archive footage)
Whoopi GoldbergSelf (archive footage)
Herb GoldmanSelf (archive footage)
Harold 'Red' GrangeSelf (archive footage)
Gene HackmanSelf (archive footage)
Jean HarlowSelf (archive footage)
Ed HerlihySelf (archive footage)
James Earl JonesSelf (archive footage)
Danny KayeSelf (archive footage)
Barry LevinsonSelf (archive footage)
Jerry LewisSelf (archive footage)
Jeffrey LyonsSelf (archive footage)
Pat MoritaSelf (archive footage)
Bobby MurcerSelf (archive footage)
Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
Jimmy PiersallSelf (archive footage)
Sam RayburnSelf (archive footage)
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
Knute RockneSelf (archive footage)
Babe RuthSelf (archive footage)
Steve SabolSelf (archive footage)
Gale SayersSelf (archive footage)
Budd SchulbergSelf (archive footage)
Tom SelleckSelf (archive footage)
Norma ShearerSelf (archive footage)
Ron SheltonSelf (archive footage)
Joel SiegelSelf (archive footage)
J. Parnell ThomasSelf (archive footage)
Gene TunneySelf (archive footage)
Irwin WinklerSelf (archive footage)
Robert WuhlSelf (archive footage)
Marv AlbertSelf (archive footage)
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