Queen Latifah as Hattie McDaniel, the primary individual of coloration to win an Oscar, for her position because the servant “Mammy” in “Gone With the Wind.” (McDaniel’s escort to the 1940 Oscars, F.P. Yober, and her agent, William Meiklejohn, additionally make an especially temporary cameo.)
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Jake Picking as Rock Hudson, certainly one of Hollywood’s largest stars all through the 1950s and ’60s and an Oscar-nominee for the 1956 movie “Giant.”
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Jim Parsons as Henry Willson, the highly effective expertise agent and sexual predator identified for launching the careers of Hollywood’s largest male stars, together with Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter.
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Anthony Coons as tv star Guy Madison, a shopper of Henry Willson.
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Samuel Caleb Walker as Rory Calhoun, one other of Henry Willson’s shoppers. Calhoun starred with Marilyn Monroe within the back-to-back movies “How to Marry a Millionaire” and “River of No Return.”
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Michelle Krusiec as Anna May Wong, a Chinese American movie star all through the 1920s and ’30 who was infamously snubbed for the lead position in “The Good Earth” resulting from censorship rules barring interracial relationships in movie.
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Joe Marinelli as “The Good Earth” director Sidney Franklin.
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Timothy Dvorak as Irving Thalberg, producer of “The Good Earth,” “Mutiny on the Bounty” and “Grand Hotel” often known as “The Boy Wonder” for his youthful look and talent to bundle hit movies.
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Camille Natta as Luise Rainer, the German-born actress who was given the main position in “The Good Earth” over Anna May Wong and went on to win an Oscar for the half.
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Fred Grandy as English actor C. Aubrey Smith, who seems in a quick flashback to the 1938 Oscars as a presenter. Grandy is finest often known as Gopher on “The Love Boat.”
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Frank Crim as Mickey Cohen, a infamous mobster who’s employed by Henry Willson within the sequence.
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Daniel London as “The Philadelphia Story” and “My Fair Lady” director George Cukor, the unofficial head of Hollywood’s homosexual subculture.
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Billy Boyd as English playwright Noel Coward, a visitor at Cukor’s social gathering.
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Paget Brewster as Tallulah Bankhead, Broadway star and rumored lover of Hattie McDaniel.