Cast
- Bette Davis as Frances Beatrice 'Fanny' Trellis Skeffington
- Claude Rains as Job Skeffington
- Walter Abel as George Trellis, Fanny's cousin
- Richard Waring as Trippy Trellis, Fanny's brother
- Marjorie Riordan as Fanny Rachel Trellis, Fanny and Job's daughter as an adult
- Robert Shayne as MacMahon, a local gangster
- John Alexander as Jim Conderley, one of Fanny's four persistent suitors
- Jerome Cowan as Edward Morrison, one of Fanny's four persistent suitors
- Peter Whitney as Chester Forbish, one of Fanny's four persistent suitors
- Bill Kennedy as Bill Thatcher, one of Fanny's four persistent suitors
- Johnny Mitchell as Johnny Mitchell, a younger suitor of Fanny's who later marries her daughter. Born Douglas N. Lamy, this actor changed his name to that of his character.
- George Coulouris as Doctor Byles
- Dorothy Peterson as Manby, Fanny's housekeeper
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