Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Rosemary

Gordon Comstock

Ravelston

Erskine

Julia Comstock

Hermione

Mrs. Wisbeach

Mrs Meakin

McKechnie

Paul Doring

Ravenscroft Waiter

Dora

Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
