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The Miracle of Sound (1940)
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Short | 11 min | Documentary, Short

The Miracle of Sound (1940)

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Short | 11 min | Documentary, Short

MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X to illustrate the techniques....See moreMGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X to illustrate the techniques. Parts of this short are in Technicolor, including a stunning screen test of Greer Garson for Blossoms in the Dust. The conclusion is a montage of trailers for coming MGM pictures featuring almost the entire MGM constellation of stars. Written by Thomas McWilliams See less

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42 cast members

Name	Known for
Clark Gable Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	It Happened One Night (1934)
Hedy Lamarr Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Samson and Delilah (1949)
Spencer Tracy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Norma Shearer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Divorcee (1930)
Robert Taylor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Bribe (1949)
Conrad Veidt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
Alla Nazimova Self (archive footage) (as Nazimova) Self (archive footage) (as Nazimova) See fewer	Salomé (1922)
The Marx Brothers Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Duck Soup (1933)
Ann Sothern Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lady Be Good (1941)
Ruth Hussey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Walter Pidgeon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Forbidden Planet (1956)
Robert Young Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crossfire (1947)
Lew Ayres Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Holiday (1938)
Lionel Barrymore Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Laraine Day Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Judy Garland Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Lana Turner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Madame X (1966)
Joan Crawford Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Cary Grant Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)
Katharine Hepburn Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Lion in Winter (1968)
James Stewart Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vertigo (1958)
George Murphy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	This Is the Army (1943)
Charles Winninger Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Show Boat (1936)
Douglas McPhail Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Babes in Arms (1939)
Wallace Beery Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Robert Donat Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The 39 Steps (1935)
Nelson Eddy Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	Naughty Marietta (1935)
Greta Garbo Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Ninotchka (1939)
Greer Garson Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Myrna Loy Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Jeanette MacDonald Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	Cairo (1942)
Chico Marx Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Duck Soup (1933)
Groucho Marx Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Harpo Marx Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	A Night at the Opera (1935)
Robert Montgomery Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Night Must Fall (1937)
Eleanor Powell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Born to Dance (1936)
William Powell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Mickey Rooney Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Rosalind Russell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Auntie Mame (1958)
Douglas Shearer Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
W.S. Van Dyke Self (uncredited) Self (uncredited) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Frank Whitbeck Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Narrator (voice) (uncredited) See fewer	Lest We Forget (1937)