Ethel Waters

Petunia Jackson

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Joseph 'Little Joe' Jackson

Lena Horne

Georgia Brown

Louis Armstrong

The Trumpeter

Rex Ingram

Lucifer Jr. / Lucius Ferry

Kenneth Spencer

The General / Rev. Greene

John William Sublett

Domino Johnson

Oscar Polk

The Deacon / Fleetfoot

Mantan Moreland

First Idea Man

Willie Best

Second Idea Man

Fletcher Rivers

Third Idea Man

Leon James Poke

Fourth Idea Man

Ford Washington Lee

Messenger Boy

Bill Bailey

Bill

Butterfly McQueen

Lily

Ruby Dandridge

Mrs. Kelso

Nick Stewart

Dude

Ernest Whitman

Jim Henry