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