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.
Bob Bailey
Trudy Talbot
Joan Harper
Susan Merrill
Tom Martin
Smudge Casey
Stephen Hornblow
Newspaper Editor
Fred Harper
Martinson
Mr. Harper
Mr. Gillespie
Mrs. Harper
Al Ludlow
Third Broker
Young Man
Moe
Italian Wife
Police Officer
Haskins
Landlady
Reception Room Man
Bill - Night Editor
Trudy's Nurse
Stockbroker at Window
Society Matron
Second Broker
Elderly Man
College President
Miss Graham
Italian
First Broker
Nurse
Pawnbroker
Intern
Tom Texas
Butler
Counter Man
Announcer
Fence
Detective
Janitor
Minor Role
Crying Boy
Waiter
