Juliet Stevenson as Narrator (voice)

Shari Benstock as Self

Gertrude Stein as Self (archive footage)

Alice B. Toklas as Self (archive footage)

Janet Flanner as Self (archive footage)

Samuel Steward as Self (archive footage)

Marie Laurencin as Self (archive footage)

Sylvia Beach as Self (archive footage)

Adrienne Monnier as Self (archive footage)

Gisèle Freund as Self

Jean Bernard as Self (archive footage)

Solita Solano as Self (archive footage)

Josephine Baker as Self (archive footage)

Paul Valéry as Self (archive footage)

Natalie Clifford Barney as Self (archive footage)

Berthe Cleyrerque as Self

Colette as Self (archive footage)

Romaine Brooks as Self (archive footage)

Djuna Barnes as Self (archive footage)

Thelma Wood as Self (archive footage)

Catherine R. Stimpson as Self

Pablo Picasso as Self (archive footage)

James Joyce as Self (archive footage)