A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Franchot Tone
Jean Muir
Margaret Lindsay
Ann Dvorak
Ross Alexander
Dick Foran
Charles Starrett
Russell Hicks
Robert Light
Addison Richards
Henry O'Neill
Arthur Aylesworth
Marjorie Gateson
Bradley Page
Brandon Beach
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
James P. Burtis
Nina Campana
Eddy Chandler
Joseph Crehan
Jane Darwell
Frank Dawson
John Elliott
Florence Fair
Eddie Fetherston
Maude Turner Gordon
Jonathan Hale
Herbert Heywood
Howard Hickman
Virginia Howell
George Humbert
Edward Keane
Alice Marr
Edward McWade
Bert Moorhouse
Edward Mosbar
Joseph North
Paul Panzer
Cliff Saum
Harry Seymour
Eddie Shubert
Eddie Sturgis
Victoria Vinton
Delmar Watson
Leo White