Cast
- Victor Moore as William "Pop" Webster
- Betty Hutton as Polly Judson
- Eddie Bracken as Johnny Webster
- Walter Abel as B.G. DeSoto
- Cass Daley as Mimi
- Cecil B. DeMille as himself
- Preston Sturges as himself
- Edward Fielding as Y. Frank Freemont
- Boyd Davis as Captain Kingsley
Performers:
- Bob Hope - Master of Ceremonies
- Bing Crosby - "Old Glory" number
- Fred MacMurray - Frank in "If Men Played Cards as Women Do"
- Franchot Tone - John in "If Men Played Cards as Women Do"
- Ray Milland - Joe in "If Men Played Cards as Women Do"
- Lynne Overman - in "If Men Played Cards as Women Do"
- Dorothy Lamour - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Paulette Goddard - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Veronica Lake - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Arthur Treacher - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Sterling Holloway - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Walter Catlett - "Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang" number
- Vera Zorina - "That Old Black Magic" number
- Mary Martin - "Hit the Road to Dreamland" number
- Dick Powell - "Hit the Road to Dreamland" number
- Alan Ladd - Scarface skit
- Marjorie Reynolds - Swing Shift skit
- Susan Hayward - Genevieve in Priorities skit
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - "Sharp as a Tack" number
- Katherine Dunham - dancer in "Sharp as a Tack" number
- William Bendix - Herman the Husband in Bob Hope skit
- Jerry Colonna - Bob Hope skit
- Macdonald Carey - Louie the Lug in skit
Cast notes:
- The character "B.G. Desoto" is modeled after Paramount executive producer B.G. DeSylva, and "Y. Frank Freemont" after vice-president Y. Frank Freeman. When pretending to be "Mr Freemont"'s secretary, Betty Hutton speaks in an affected Southern accent; the real Y. Frank Freeman was a Southerner who was intensely loyal to Dixie.
- Others who appear in the film include Rod Cameron, Eva Gabor, Cecil Kellaway, Matt McHugh, Robert Preston and Woody Strode. Strode has no dialogue; he is seen only very briefly as Eddie Anderson's chauffeur in the "Sharp As a Tack" number.
- Star Spangled Rhythm marked the feature film debut of Bing Crosby's son, Gary Crosby, who was 9 years old at the time.
- Although "Benito Mussolini", "Hirohito" and "Adolf Hitler" are listed as characters in this film, the actors cast in those roles are not actually portraying the dictators themselves; they are merely impersonators showing up for a brief sight gag at the end of the novelty number "A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang". Tom Dugan, a veteran character actor who appeared as "Adolf Hitler", also played "Bronski", an actor who plays the part of "Adolf Hitler", in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy To Be or Not To Be.
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