In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
Brian Donlevy
K.T. Stevens
Thurston Hall
Lloyd Corrigan
Etta McDaniel
William B. Davidson
Lillian Yarbo
Helen Lynd
Mary Treen
Lucien Littlefield
John Hamilton
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
George Irving
Charles Lane
Theodore von Eltz
Damian O'Flynn
Pat O'Malley
Frank M. Thomas
Irving Bacon
Hank Bell
Monte Blue
Horace B. Carpenter
George Chandler
David Clyde
Tom Coleman
Tex Cooper
Tex Driscoll
Fern Emmett
Sam Harris
G.P. Huntley
Jack Kenny
Ethan Laidlaw
Larry Lawson
Buck Mack
Lee Moore
Ottola Nesmith
Anna Q. Nilsson
Milton Parsons
Bob Perry
Lee Phelps
Tex Phelps
John Roy
Eleanor Stewart
Dorothy Vernon
Charles Williams