Buddy Harris
Dollar Bill
Cora Green
Minnie
Izinetta Wilcox
Sue
Earl Gough
Bob
Zerita Steptean
Jackie
Petrina Moore
Alice
Daphne Fray
Pat
Mercedes Gilbert
Jackie's mother
Frances Harrod
Maud
Alec Lovejoy
Fats
Walter Richardson
Brother Hornsby
Slim Thompson
Long-Boy
Freddie Robinson
Half-Pint
John Bunn
Wallstreet
Marieluise Bechet
Nina Mae Brown
Archie Cross
A Boy from Newark
William Woodward
A Boy from Newark
Audrey Talbird
Connie
Marie Young
Jean
Sidney Bechet
Himself - Clarinetist
Christopher Columbus
Himself - Bandleader of Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew
Patrina Waples
Woman (uncredited)