 | Kim Novak als Jeanne Eagels |
 | Jeff Chandler als Sal Satori |
 | Agnes Moorehead als Nellie Neilson |
 | Charles Drake als John Donahue |
 | Larry Gates als Al Brooks |
 | Virginia Grey als Elsie Desmond |
 | Gene Lockhart als Equity Board President |
 | Joe De Santis als Frank Satori |
 | Murray Hamilton als Chick O'Hara |
 | Lee Allen als Stage Director (uncredited) |
| Myrtle Anderson als Jeanne's Maid (uncredited) |
 | Frank Borzage als Self (uncredited) |
| Lew Borzage als Assistant Director (uncredited) |
 | Heinie Conklin als Joe, Carnival Employee (uncredited) |
 | Shelley Fabares als Teenage Girl (uncredited) |
 | Harry 'Snub' Pollard als Quartermaster Bates in 'Rain' (uncredited) |
 | Joe Turkel als Eddie, Reporter (uncredited) |
 | Dorothy Vernon als Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) |
 | Will Wright als Marshal (uncredited) |
| Marion Gray als Admirer (uncredited) |
 | Richard Harrison als Cpl. Hodgson in 'Rain' (uncredited) |
| Helen Van Tuyl als Equity Board Member (uncredited) |
 | Theo Marcuse als Dr. Richards (uncredited) |
| Jennifer Lea als Young Ingenue (uncredited) |
 | Myrna Fahey als Girl (uncredited) |
| George Sidney | Director |
| Daniel Fuchs | Screenplay |
| Sonya Levien | Screenplay |
| John Fante | Screenplay |
| Daniel Fuchs | Story |
| Robert H. Planck | Director of Photography |
| Jerome Thoms | Editor |
| Viola Lawrence | Editor |
| George Sidney | Producer |
| Jean Louis | Costume Design |
| George Duning | Original Music Composer |
| Morris Stoloff | Conductor |
| Ross Bellah | Art Direction |
| William Kiernan | Set Decoration |
| Alfred E. Spencer | Set Decoration |
| Charles S. Gould | Assistant Director |
| Ben Lane | Hair Designer |
| John P. Livadary | Recording Supervision |
| Franklin Hansen | Sound |
| Arthur Morton | Orchestrator |
