Dollar Bill
Buddy Harris
Minnie
Cora Green
Brother Hornsby
Walter Richardson
Long-Boy
Slim Thompson
Half-Pint
Freddie Robinson
Wallstreet
John Bunn
Nina Mae Brown
Marieluise Bechet
A Boy from Newark
Archie Cross
William Woodward
Connie
Audrey Talbird
Jean
Marie Young
Himself - Clarinetist
Sidney Bechet
Sue
Izinetta Wilcox
Himself - Bandleader of Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew
Christopher Columbus
Frank Wilson
Woman (uncredited)
Patrina Waples
Bob
Earl Gough
Jackie
Zerita Steptean
Alice
Petrina Moore
Pat
Daphne Fray
Jackie's mother
Mercedes Gilbert
Maud
Frances Harrod
Fats
Alec Lovejoy
Producer
Edgar G. Ulmer
Director
Story
Mathew Mathews
Screenplay
Shirley Ulmer
Director of Photography
J. Burgi Contner
Editor
Jack Kemp
Associate Producer
Peter E. Kassler
Sound Designer
Edwin Schabbehar
Edward Fenton
Edward Hyland
Executive Producer
Alfred N. Sack
Production Design
Eugene Wolk
Benjamin F. Resnick
Original Music Composer
Donald Heywood