• 
  Vincente Minnelli

  regizor

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  Ethel Waters

  Petunia Jackson
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  Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

  Joseph Jackson
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  Butterfly McQueen

  Lily
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  Daisy Bufford

  Jim Henry's Paradise patron
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  Lena Horne

  Georgia Brown
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  Oscar Polk

  The Deacon/Fleetfoot
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  Willie Best

  Second Idea Man

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  Louis Armstrong

  The Trumpeter
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  Rex Ingram

  Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
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  Bill Bailey

  Bill
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  Ford Washington Lee

  Messenger Boy (as 'Buck' [Ford L. Washington])
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  Mantan Moreland

  First Idea Man
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  Leon James Poke

  Fourth Idea Man (as Poke [Leon James])
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  Fletcher Rivers

  Third Idea Man (as Moke [Fletcher Rivers])

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  Kenneth Spencer

  The General / Rev. Green
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  John William Sublett

  Domino Johnson (as 'Bubbles' [John W. Sublett])