Sports on the Silver Screen
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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.
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Writers: Frank Deford, Leslie D. FarrellProducer: Ross Greenburg
Liev Schreiber
as Self - Narrator (voice)
John G. Avildsen
as Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
as Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Chartoff
as Self (archive footage)
Jackie Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal
as Self (archive footage)
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