Cast
- Carole Lombard as Maria Tura, an actress in Nazi-occupied Poland.
- Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, an actor and Maria's husband.
- Robert Stack as Lt. Stanislav Sobinski, a Polish airman in love with Maria.
- Felix Bressart as Greenberg, a Jewish member of the acting company who plays bit parts and dreams of playing Shylock.
- Lionel Atwill as Rawich, a ham actor in the acting company.
- Stanley Ridges as Professor Alexander Siletsky, a Nazi spy masquerading as a Polish resistance worker who tries to seduce Maria in order to persuade her to become a Nazi spy.
- Sig Ruman as Col. Ehrhardt, the bumbling Gestapo commander in Warsaw.
- Tom Dugan as Bronski, a member of the acting company who impersonates Hitler.
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