 | Clark Gable als Cpt Alan Gaskell |
 | Jean Harlow als Dolly 'China Doll' Portland |
 | Wallace Beery als Jamesy MacArdle |
 | Lewis Stone als Tom Davids |
 | Rosalind Russell als Sybil Barclay |
 | Dudley Digges als Dawson |
 | C. Aubrey Smith als Sir Guy Wilmerding |
 | Robert Benchley als Charlie McCaleb |
 | William Henry als Rockwell |
 | Liev De Maigret als Mrs. Vollberg |
 | Lilian Bond als Mrs. Timmons |
 | Edward Brophy als Wilbur Timmons |
 | Soo Yong als Yu-Lan |
| Carol Ann Beery als Carol Ann |
 | Akim Tamiroff als Paul Romanoff |
 | Ivan Lebedeff als Ngah |
 | Emily Fitzroy als Mrs. Higgins (uncredited) |
 | Hattie McDaniel als Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited) |
 | Malcolm McGregor als Atkins (uncredited) |
 | Donald Meek als Chess Player (uncredited) |
 | Willie Fung als Cabin Boy Ah Sing (uncredited) |
 | Daisy Belmore als Martha, Sybil's Maid (uncredited) |
 | Barlowe Borland als Willett, Royal Canada Bank (uncredited) |
 | Harry C. Bradley als Ship Passenger (uncredited) |
| Fred Farrell als Ship Passenger (uncredited) |
 | Pat Flaherty als Second Officer Kingston (uncredited) |
 | Chester Gan als Rickshaw Boy (uncredited) |
| Tom Gubbins als Ship's Officer / Sergeant of the Guards (uncredited) |
| Sherry Hall als Ship's Engineer (uncredited) |
| Sam Harris als Ship Passenger (uncredited) |
 | Forrester Harvey als Chief Steward Ted Gary (uncredited) |
 | John Ince als Ship's Pilot (uncredited) |
 | Charles Irwin als Bertie the Purser (uncredited) |
 | Tetsu Komai als Malay Pirate (uncredited) |
| Eddie Lee als Sailor on Bridge (uncredited) |
 | Richard Loo als Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited) |
| Ferdinand Munier als Police Superintendent (uncredited) |
 | Beatrice Roberts als Ship's Passenger (uncredited) |
 | Loretta Russell als Ship Passenger (uncredited) |
| James Wang als Trapshooting Attendant (uncredited) |
 | Bobby Watson als Man on Dock with McCaleb (uncredited) |
| Jules Furthman | Screenplay |
| James Kevin McGuinness | Screenplay |
| Tay Garnett | Director |
| Crosbie Garstin | Novel |
| William LeVanway | Editor |
| Irving Thalberg | Executive Producer |
| Herbert Stothart | Original Music Composer |
| Adrian | Costume Design |
| Ray June | Director of Photography |
| Joe Cohn | Production Manager |
| Frank Messenger | Unit Manager |
| Albert Lewin | Associate Producer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Joseph M. Newman | Assistant Director |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound |
| Elmer Sheeley | Assistant Art Director |
| Edwin B. Willis | Art Direction |
| Jack Virgil | Orchestrator |
| Paul Bern | Story Consultant |
| Leonid Raab | Orchestrator |
| James Curtis Havens | Art Direction |
| Ray Ramsey | Assistant Camera |
| Charles Maxwell | Orchestrator |
| Edward Ward | Compositor |
| William A. Wellman | Second Unit Director |
| James Basevi | Visual Effects |
| Warren Newcombe | Special Effects |
| Maurice Revnes | Writer |
| Harold S. Bucquet | Second Unit Director |
| James C. McKay | Second Unit Director |
| David Townsend | Art Direction |
| Paul Marquardt | Orchestrator |
| Paul Hervey Fox | Dialogue |
| Monckton Hoffe | Writer |
| Clyde De Vinna | Director of Photography |
| Ellsworth Fredericks | Assistant Camera |
| John Lee Mahin | Screenplay |
