For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vignettes together. In its own way, Les Etoiles ne Maurent Jamais can be seen as a precursor to those now-ubiquitous "tributes" on such cable services as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies.

Neuf séquences caractéristiques du talent de neuf "monstres sacrés" disparus nous en restituant le visage et les compositions : "Si J'étais Le Patron", "Boule De Suif", "Les Vignes Du Seigneur", "Tovaritch", "Crime Et Châtiment", "Douce", "Entrée Des Artistes", "La Femme Du Boulanger", "Les Visiteurs Du Soir".