Alistair Cooke
Self - Host

James Daly
Narrator / / General Robert E. Lee / St. Clare / Colonel Billy Mitchell

Helen Hayes
/ Bessie Arlington / Mrs. Howard V. Larue III / Mrs. Dearth

Royal Dano

Crahan Denton

Joanne Woodward
/ Ann Rutledge

Jessica Tandy
/ Jackie / Louisa Catherine Johnson / Self - Reader

Jonathan Harris
/ Courcelles / Matey

Bert Lahr

Christopher Plummer
/ Oedipus / Thomas Mendip

Nita Talbot
/ Letitia

Neva Patterson
Mrs. Coade / / Mrs. Lansdowne

Marian Seldes

Richard Kiley
/ Actor / The Prosecuting Attorney

Philip Abbott
/ Thomas Jefferton

Larry Blyden
Teddy Roosevelt / Kid Burns /

Edward Binns
/ Bitter ex-beau

Peter Ustinov
Dr. Samuel Johnson / Marshal /

Michael Strong

Ignatius Wolfington