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  • Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
  • TV Movie | 85 min | Documentary, Sport
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
TV Movie | 85 min | Documentary, Sport

A look at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch 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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Updated Mar 16, 1997

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Mar 16, 1997 (United States)

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47 cast members
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Liev Schreiber
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Marv Albert
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John G. Avildsen
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Lauren Bacall
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Humphrey Bogart
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Charles Chaplin
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Robert Chartoff
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Jackie Cooper
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Billy Crystal
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Tony Danza
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Ruby Dee
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Jack Dempsey
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Walt Disney
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Peter Gent
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Herb Goldman
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Harold 'Red' Grange
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Gene Hackman
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Jean Harlow
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Ed Herlihy
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James Earl Jones
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Danny Kaye
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Barry Levinson
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Jerry Lewis
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Jeffrey Lyons
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Pat Morita
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Bobby Murcer
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Richard Nixon
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Jimmy Piersall
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Sam Rayburn
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Ronald Reagan
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Knute Rockne
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Babe Ruth
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Steve Sabol
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Gale Sayers
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Budd Schulberg
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Tom Selleck
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Norma Shearer
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Ron Shelton
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Talia Shire
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Joel Siegel
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Sylvester Stallone
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J. Parnell Thomas
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Gene Tunney
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Irwin Winkler
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Robert Wuhl
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