Greatest "All-Star" cast in a film?

[PKTrekGirl]

^ There were several films like that made back in the day...particularly around the Second World War, but even back in the 1930's. All the studios pulled out all their stars to make a big variety show. The one you have listed there is one made by RKO & FOX, who joined forces for that particular effort.

One made the same year by Warner Brothers was called Thank Your Lucky Stars, and included the big Warner Brothers stars:

Humphrey Bogart
Bette Davis
Olivia deHavilland
Errol Flynn
John Garfield
Joan Leslie
Eddie Cantor
Ida Lupino
Dennis Morgan
Ann Sheridan
Dinah Shore
Alexis Smith
Jack Carson
Alan Hale
Edward Everett Horton
George Tobias
S.Z. Sakall
Hattie McDaniel
Ruth Donnelly
Monte Blue

...among others.

Another Warner Brothers effort, made in 1949, was called It's A Great Feeling, and included:
Dennis Morgan
Doris Day
Jack Carson
Gary Cooper
Ronald Reagan
Jane Wyman
Sydney Greenstreet
Danny Kaye
Joan Crawford
Edward G. Robinson
Eleanor Parker
Patricia Neal
Errol Flynn
and directors Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, and Michael Curtiz

...among others.


MGM did a film called The Ziegfeld Follies in 1946 which included most of the big musical stars from their 'stable':
Fred Astaire
Lucille Ball
Lucille Bremer
Fanny Brice
Judy Garland
Kathryn Grayson
Lena Horne
Gene Kelly
Red Skelton
Esther Williams
William Powell
Edward Arnold
Cyd Charisse
Hume Cronyn
Keenan Wynn
Audrey Totter
William Frawley

....among others.

Then you had all of those Broadway Melody pictures.... Those huge studio ensemble pictures were once quite the rage.

Anyway, another 'modern' film which has alot of stars in it is is JFK:
Kevin Costner
Sissy Spacek
Joe Pesci
Tommy Lee Jones
Gary Oldman
John Candy
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
Edward Asner
Donald Sutherland
Kevin Bacon

 

[Ben Sisko3]

DEAD MAN:
Johnny Depp
Robert Mitchum
Lance Henriksen
Gary Farmer
Gabriel Byrne
Steve Buscemi
Crispin Glover
Michael Wincott
John Hurt
Iggy Pop
Billy Bob Thornton
Alfred Molina

 

[Aragorn]

I think some of these posts (mine included?) are missing the point of the OP. An all-star cast would not be Tony Todd, Mark Moses, Lance Henriksen, John C. McGinley and Nestor Carbonell. An all-star cast would be the actors who have their name on the poster for Ocean's 13.

 

[Bad Bishop]

I think some of these posts (mine included?) are missing the point of the OP. An all-star cast would not be Tony Todd, Mark Moses, Lance Henriksen, John C. McGinley and Nestor Carbonell. An all-star cast would be the actors who have their name on the poster for Ocean's 13.

Exactly. The previous example of Dead Man (starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, Lance Henriksen and others) has fine actors, but they're mostly character actors. We're looking for films that piled up on megastars, A-listers and assorted legends.

 

[TGTheodore]

The Great Escape (1963)

Steve McQueen
James Garner
Donald Pleasance
Richard Attenborough
Charles Bronson
James Coburn
David McCallum

and even more international actors. An amazing film and one of the best to introduce so many characters so quickly and so well.

For something a little more modern, some of the best at the time:

The Big Chill (1980)

Kevin Kline
William Hurt
Glenn Close
Mark Kay Place
Tom Berenger
Jeff Goldblum
Jobeth Williams
Meg Tilly

--Ted

 

[Orintho]

Big Bible movies were always good to get the all-star casts. Consider 'The Greatest Story Ever Told':

Max von Sydow
Carroll Baker
Pat Boone
Victor Buono
José Ferrer
Van Heflin
Charlton Heston
Martin Landau
Angela Lansbury
David McCallum
Roddy McDowall
Dorothy McGuire
Sal Mineo
Nehemiah Persoff
Donald Pleasence
Sidney Poitier
Claude Rains
Telly Savalas
John Wayne
Michael Ansara
Robert Blake
Jamie Farr
Mark Lenard
Robert Loggia

 

[Roshi]

The Dirty Dozen,

The Great Escape and

Kelly's Heroes

 

[Davros]

I would have to go with The Longest Day as the movie with the longest list of big stars in it.