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

Frank Wilson

Patrina Waples

Woman (uncredited)