Top Billed Cast

1. 

   Robert Alda

   George Gershwin

2. 

   Joan Leslie

   Julie Adams

3. 

   Alexis Smith

   Christine Gilbert

4. 

   Charles Coburn

   Max Dreyfus

5. 

   Julie Bishop

   Lee Gershwin

6. 

   Albert Bassermann

   Prof. Franck

7. 

   Morris Carnovsky

   Morris Gershwin

8. 

   Rosemary DeCamp

   Rose Gershwin

9. 

   Oscar Levant

   Oscar Levant

10. 

    Paul Whiteman

    Paul Whiteman

11. 

    Al Jolson

    Al Jolson

12. 

    George White

    George White

13. 

    Hazel Scott

    Hazel Scott

14. 

    Anne Brown

    Bess

15. 

    Herbert Rudley

    Ira Gershwin

16. 

    John B. Hughes

    Hughes

17. 

    Mickey Roth

    George Gershwin as a Boy

18. 

    Darryl Hickman

    Ira Gershwin as a Boy

19. 

    Charles Halton

    Mr. Kast

20. 

    Andrew Tombes

    Mr. Million

21. 

    Gregory Golubeff

    Mr. Katzman

22. 

    Walter Soderling

    Mr. Muscatel

23. 

    Eddie Marr

    Buddy De Sylva

24. 

    Theodore von Eltz

    Foley

25. 

    Bill Kennedy

    Herbert Stone

26. 

    Oscar Loraine

    Maurice Ravel

27. 

    Johnny Downs

    Dancer

28. 

    Ernest Golm

    Otto Kahn

29. 

    Martin Noble

    Jascha Heifetz

30. 

    Hugo Kirchhoffer

    Walter Damrosch

31. 

    Will Wright

    Rachmaninoff

32. 

    Lynn Baggett

    Guest (uncredited)

33. 

    Gower Champion

    Tap Dancer at Remick's (uncredited)

34. 

    Elsa Maxwell

    Elsa Maxwell (uncredited)

35. 

    Mark Stevens

    Steve (uncredited)

36. 

    Charles Waldron

    Doctor (uncredited)

37. 

    Bernard DeRoux

    Porter (uncredited)

38. 

    Joe Gilbert

    Nightclub Patron (uncredited)