Cast
- Larry Parks as Al Jolson
- Evelyn Keyes as Julie Benson
- William Demarest as Steve Martin
- Bill Goodwin as Tom Baron
- Ludwig Donath as Cantor Yoelson
- Scotty Beckett as Asa Yoelson / Al Jolson, as a boy
- Tamara Shayne as Mrs. Yoelson
- Jo-Carroll Dennison as Ann Murray
- John Alexander as Lew Dockstader
- Ernest Cossart as Father McGee
- The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir as Church choir (as Mitchell 'Boychoir')
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