"Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder."
Mickey Rooney
as Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest
as Jane Tafford
William Demarest
as Fluff
James Craig
as Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown
as Edna
Louis Armstrong
as Himself
Myrna Dell
as Paulette Ardrey
Vic Damone
Art Lewis
as Sam
Tommy Rettig
as Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers
as Lt. Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott
as Behr
Jacqueline Fontaine
as Frieda
Monica Lewis
as Herself
Jack Teagarden
Earl Hines
Tommy Farrell
as Boynton
László Kardos
Director
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
Warren Newcombe
Helen Rose
Costume Designer
Sydney Guilaroff
Hair Designer
William Tuttle
Makeup Designer
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Leonid Vasian
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Alfred E. Spencer
Nick Castle
Choreographer
Allen Rivkin
Writer
Joe Pasternak
Producer
Robert Surtees
Director of Photography
Albert Akst
Editor