An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.

Leslie Howard
as Atterbury Dodd

Joan Blondell
as Lester Plum

Humphrey Bogart
as Doug Quintain

Alan Mowbray
as Koslofski

Marla Shelton
as Thelma Cheri

C. Henry Gordon
as Ivor Nassau

Jack Carson
as Tom Potts

William V. Mong
as Cyrus Pettypacker

Esther Howard
as Mrs, Mack

Charles Middleton
as Actor Dressed as Abraham Lincoln