Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
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.
Sports on the Silver ScreenDocumentary
Cast
- Liev Schreiber — Self - Narrator (voice)
- John G. Avildsen — Self (archive footage)
- Lauren Bacall — Self (archive footage)
- Humphrey Bogart — Self (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin — Self (archive footage)
- Robert Chartoff — Self (archive footage)
- Jackie Cooper — Self (archive footage)
- Billy Crystal — Self (archive footage)
- Tony Danza — Self (archive footage)
- Ruby Dee — Self (archive footage)
- Jack Dempsey — Self (archive footage)
- Walt Disney — Self (archive footage)
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