Cast
- Richard Whorf as Jigger Pine, a talented jazz pianist
- Priscilla Lane as Ginger "Character" Powell, the band's singer
- Betty Field as Kay Grant, Del's scheming former girlfriend
- Jack Carson as Leo Powell, Character's loud-mouthed, conceited husband who plays trumpet for the band
- Lloyd Nolan as Del Davis, a gangster and racketeer
- Elia Kazan as Nickie Haroyen, the band's clarinetist who gave up law school for music
- Wallace Ford as Brad Ames, a crippled former guitar player who is hopelessly in love with Kay
- Howard Da Silva as Sam Paryas, an opportunistic member of Del's gang
- Peter Whitney as Pete Bossett, the band's bassist
- Billy Halop as Peppi, the band's young drummer
- Herbert Heywood as the Brakeman, a kindly railway man who lets the band ride the rails for free
- George Lloyd as Joe, the St. Louis cafe owner
- Charles C. Wilson as Barney
- William Gillespie as Baritone Singer in Jail Cell
- Matt McHugh as the Drunk
- Ernest Whitman as Black Prisoner #1
- Napoleon Simpson as Black Prisoner #2
- Dudley Dickerson as Black Prisoner #3
- Anthony Warde as Del's Henchman #1
- Sol Gorss as Del's Henchman #2
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