Roscoe Orman

Willie

Diana Sands

Cora

Thalmus Rasulala

Robert Daniels

Roger Robinson

Bell

George Murdock

Celli

Albert Hall

Pointer

Norma Donaldson

Honey

Juanita Brown

Sola

Royce Wallace

Willie's Mother

Judith Brown

Gorgia

Marilyn Coleman

Connie

Mary Charlotte Wilcox

Scatback

Marcia McBroom

Pearl

Jack Bernardi

Willie's Lawyer

Al Bain

Conventioneer

Leslie McRay

Competing Prostitute

Alan Weeks

Photographer

George Wyner

Bailiff (uncredited)

Clarice Taylor

Willie's mothers' friend (uncredited)

Olan Soule

Conventioneer arrested in Vice Raid (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre

Conventioneer (uncredited)

Leslie McRay

Competing Prostitute (uncredited)

Bob Harks

Bailiff (uncredited)

Slim Gaillard

Bum Watching Willie's Car (uncredited)

Robert DoQui

Baylor the Pimp (uncredited)

Jack Berle

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Al Bain

Conventioneer (uncredited)

Ken Lynch

Judge #1

Nathaniel Taylor

Sugar