• 
  Josef von Sternberg

  regizor

• 
  Jules Furthman

  scenarist

• 
  Marlene Dietrich

  Shanghai Lily
• 
  Lawrence Grant

  Reverendul Carmichael
• 
  Eugene Pallette

  Sam Salt
• 
  Clive Brook

  Donald Harvey
• 
  Anna May Wong

  Hui Fei
• 
  Warner Oland

  Henry Chang

• 
  Leonard Carey

  Carey, Minister in Shanghai
• 
  Claude King

  Mr. Albright, Division Superintendant
• 
  Gustav von Seyffertitz

  Eric Baum
• 
  Forrester Harvey

  Peiping Ticket Agent
• 
  Minoru Nishida

  Li Fung, 'Blue Lotus' the Spy

• 
  Lee Garmes

  imagine
• 
  Frank Sullivan

  montaj

• 
  Adolph Zukor

  producator executiv
• 
  Rudolph G. Kopp

  coloana sonora
• 
  W. Franke Harling

  coloana sonora