Movie: Los Angeles Plays Itself

Top 10 Billed Cast

Encke King
Encke King

Narrator (voice)

Ben Alexander
Ben Alexander

Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)

Jim Backus
Jim Backus

Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Brenda Bakke
Brenda Bakke

Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Barbara O. Jones
Barbara O. Jones

Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage)

Gene Barry
Gene Barry

Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage)

Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart

Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)

Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont

George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

William Bendix
William Bendix

Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth

Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

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