Bee Freeman

Dinah Jackson

Sol Johnson

Paul Bronson

'Slick' Chester

LeRoy Giles

Larry Seymour

Tim Sharkey

Oscar Polk

Sam Brown

Ethel Moses

Evelyn Martin

Amanda Randolph

The Rooming House Maid

Lorenzo Tucker

Detective Sergeant

Willie Kew

Sing Lee

Clara Bell Powell

Anna Mae Fritz

Sam's mother [uncredited]

Bernice Gray

Eddie Matthews

Mitchell Modeste

Stringbean

Comic Tap Dancer

The Pope Sisters

Duet Singers

Raymond Collins

Rope Dancer

Dotty Saulter

Club SInger ("That Man Of Mine")

The Girls from Nagasaki

(unconfirmed)

The Harlem Sepia Chorus

(unconfirmed)

The Six Sizzlers

(unconfirmed)

Bobby Hargreaves

Club Band Leader

Kit Kat Club Orchestra

Club Band