

75 minutes
11/17/1934
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.

Franchot Tone
as Bob Bailey

Jean Muir
as Trudy Talbot

Margaret Lindsay
as Joan Harper

Ann Dvorak
as Susan Merrill

Ross Alexander
as Tom Martin

Dick Foran
as Smudge Casey

Charles Starrett
as Stephen Hornblow

Russell Hicks
as Newspaper Editor

Robert Light
as Fred Harper

Addison Richards
as Martinson

Henry O'Neill
as Mr. Harper

Arthur Aylesworth
as Mr. Gillespie

Marjorie Gateson
as Mrs. Harper

Bradley Page
as Al Ludlow
Brandon Beach
as Third Broker

Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
as Young Man

James P. Burtis
as Moe
Nina Campana
as Italian Wife

Eddy Chandler
as Police Officer

Joseph Crehan
as Haskins

Jane Darwell
as Landlady
Frank Dawson
as Reception Room Man

John Elliott
as Bill - Night Editor

Florence Fair
as Trudy's Nurse

Eddie Fetherston
as Stockbroker at Window

Maude Turner Gordon
as Society Matron

Jonathan Hale
as Second Broker

Herbert Heywood
as Elderly Man

Howard Hickman
as College President

Virginia Howell
as Miss Graham

George Humbert
as Italian

Edward Keane
as First Broker
Alice Marr
as Nurse

Edward McWade
as Pawnbroker
Bert Moorhouse
as Intern
Edward Mosbar
as Tom Texas
Joseph North
as Butler

Paul Panzer
as Counter Man
Cliff Saum
as Announcer
Harry Seymour
as Fence
Eddie Shubert
as Detective
Eddie Sturgis
as Janitor

Victoria Vinton
as Minor Role

Delmar Watson
as Crying Boy

Leo White
as Waiter