Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons

Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons

Amy Veness as Mrs. Flint

Alison Leggatt as Aunt Sylvia

Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell

John Mills as Billy Mitchell

Kay Walsh as Queenie Gibbons

Eileen Erskine as Vi Gibbons

John Blythe as Reg Gibbons

Guy Verney as Sam Leadbitter

Betty Fleetwood as Phyllis Blake

Merle Tottenham as Edie

Mabel Etherington as Woman in Crowd

Jack May as Mourner

Laurence Olivier as Narrator (voice)