Shirley Temple as Barbara 'Ching-Ching' Stewart

Robert Young as Tommy Randall

Alice Faye as Susan Parker

Eugene Pallette as The Colonel

Helen Westley as Mrs. Hope

Arthur Treacher as Atkins

Allan Lane as Richard Hope

J. Edward Bromberg as Judge Booth

Astrid Allwyn as Kay Swift

Robert Greig as Captain

Jayne Regan as Dora Day

Julius Tannen as First Mate

Willie Fung as Chang

Philip Ahn as Sun Lo

Paul McVey as Second Mate

Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Kruikshank

William Stack as Alfred Kruikshank

Honorable Wu as Li Ze Mon

Richard Loo as Chinese Merchant (uncredited)