"An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio."
Leslie Howard
as Atterbury Dodd
Joan Blondell
as Lester Plum
Humphrey Bogart
as Doug Quintain
Alan Mowbray
as Koslofski
Marla Shelton
as Thelma Cheri
C. Henry Gordon
as Ivor Nassau
Jack Carson
as Tom Potts
William V. Mong
as Cyrus Pettypacker
Esther Howard
as Mrs, Mack
Charles Middleton
as Actor Dressed as Abraham Lincoln
Emerson Treacy
as Tommy
Tully Marshall
as Fowler Pettypacker
J. C. Nugent
as Junior Pettypacker
Charles Williams
as Mr. Mack
Olin Howland
as Hotel Manager
Anne O'Neal
as Mother of Singing Child Actress
Mary MacLaren
as Naomi
Theodore von Eltz
as Studio Actor in "Sex and Satan" Movie
John George
as Man at Studio Gate (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde
as Starlet
C. Graham Baker
Screenplay
Gene Towne
Clarence Budington Kelland
Novel
Tay Garnett
Director
Alexander Toluboff
Art Direction
Helen Taylor
Costume Design
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Otho Lovering
Editor
Paul Neal
Sound
Walter Wanger
Producer
Charles Kerr
Assistant Director
Charles G. Clarke
Director of Photography
Dorothy Spencer