"They Set Basin Street to Broadway Ablaze With Sizzling Songs and Hot Rhythm!"
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Selina Rogers

Bill Williamson

Cab Calloway

Katherine Dunham

'Fats' Waller

Dancer

Dancer

Singer

Gabe Tucker

Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Stagehand (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Singer (uncredited)

Band Member (uncredited)
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Trumpeter (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)

Cab Calloway, Jr. (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Fat Girl (uncredited)
Dancer / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Hatcheck Girl / Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Saxophonist (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Member The Shadracks (uncredited)
Band Member (uncredited)

May Johnson (uncredited)
Drummer (uncredited)

Lyles (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Skit (uncredited)

Trumpeter (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)

Dancer / Nightclub Patron
Tucker's Gold-Digging Girlfriend (uncredited)

Nightclub Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Dancer (uncredited)
Band Member (uncredited)
Member The Shadracks (uncredited)
Cousin Jake (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Chick Bailey (uncredited)
Jim Europe (uncredited)

Dancer (uncredited)