Susan Blakely as Frances Farmer

Lee Grant as Lillian Farmer

Royal Dano as Ernest Farmer

Joe Lambie as Bill Anderson

John Heard as Clifford Odets

Melanie Mayron as Sophie

Leonardo Cimino as Adolph Zukor

Jack Creley as Professor Williams

James Eckhouse as Harold Clurman

Jeannie Elias as Lottie

Joseph Maher as 1st Doctor

Bruce Ornstein as John Garfield

Paul Perri as Luther Adler

Madeleine Sherwood as 2nd Doctor

Ivor Francis as Drama Teacher

Rodger Barton as Actor #1

Neil Affleck as Actor #2

Donann Cavin as Actor #3

Joe Pagano as Actor #4

Sidney Armus as Judge

Frederick Rolf as Agent

Richard B. Shull as Publicist

Keith James as Reporter #1

Paddy Carol Brown as Reporter #2

Jim Chad as Reporter #3

Robert Hawkins as Franchot Tone

George Touliatos as Makeup Man

Dalene Young as Hairdresser

Joe Grifasi as Wyler

James Cahill as Howard Hawks

Michelle Leigh Stevens as Frances, Age 9

Thomas Barbour as Director

Martha Gibson as Script Girl

Neil Dainard as Justice of the Peace

Ray Powers as Photographer #1

Eric Stine as Photographer #2

Bob Larkin as Reporter

Sean Moloney as Young Man

Alan Scarfe as Doctor #3

Joanne Strauss as Nurse

Meg Hogarth as Police Matron

Angus MacInnes as Policeman #1

John Kirby as Sailor

Charles Prior as Reporter #4

Clark Stevens as Reporter #5

William Ward as Reporter #6

Valerie Boyle as Lottie's Mother (uncredited)

Hayley Taylor as Young Francis Farmer (uncredited)