Ann Blyth as Helen Morgan

Paul Newman as Larry Maddux

Richard Carlson as Russell Wade

Gene Evans as Whitey Krause

Alan King as Benny Weaver

Cara Williams as Dolly Evans

Virginia Vincent as Sue

Edward Platt as Johnny Haggerty

Walter Woolf King as Florenz Ziegfeld

Juanita Moore as Backstage Maid

Herb Vigran as Finney

Dorothy Green as Mrs. Wade

Warren Douglas as Mark Hellinger

Iris Adrian as Klingman's Secretary

Rudy Vallee as Himself

Walter Winchell as Himself

Eve Whitney as Society Woman

Bess Flowers as Woman at boat dock

Juli Reding as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)