Linda Hunt as Alice B. Toklas

Linda Bassett as Gertrude Stein

Jacques Boudet as Guillaume Apollinaire

Andrew McCarthy as Henry Hopper

Bernadette Lafont as Fernande Olivier

Adolfo Vargas as Pablo Picasso (voice)

Pierre-Alain Chapuis as Priest

Daniel Langlet as Monsieur Thiele

Michèle Gleizer as Madame Thiele

Bruce McGill as Ernest Hemingway

K.C. Schulberg as Stage Manager

Pascal Cambon as Sound Effects Man

Liliane Rovère as Bordello Madame

Brigitte Bellac as Prostitute

Jean Achache as Doctor

Mauricette Laurence as Helene

Catherine Dubuc as Pauline

Emilie Zinetti as Baby Willi