"Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices."
Ann Blyth
as Helen Morgan
Paul Newman
as Larry Maddux
Richard Carlson
as Russell Wade
Gene Evans
as Whitey Krause
Alan King
as Benny Weaver
Cara Williams
as Dolly Evans
Virginia Vincent
as Sue
Edward Platt
as Johnny Haggerty
Walter Woolf King
as Florenz Ziegfeld
Juanita Moore
as Backstage Maid
Herb Vigran
as Finney
Dorothy Green
as Mrs. Wade
Warren Douglas
as Mark Hellinger
Iris Adrian
as Klingman's Secretary
Rudy Vallee
as Himself
Walter Winchell
Eve Whitney
as Society Woman
Bess Flowers
as Woman at boat dock
Juli Reding
as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Michael Curtiz
Director
Ted D. McCord
Director of Photography
Nelson Gidding
Writer
Oscar Saul
Frank Bracht
Editor
Stephen Longstreet
Martin Rackin
Producer
Dean Riesner
Ray Heindorf
Original Music Composer