The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Himself
Jascha Heifetz
Peter McCarthy
Joel McCrea
Ann Lawson
Andrea Leeds
Frankie
Gene Reynolds
Professor Lawson
Walter Brennan
Limey
Terry Kilburn
Willie
Tommy Kelly
Mr. Flower
Porter Hall
Rocks Mulligan
Walter Tetley
Fever
Chuck Stubbs
Betty
Gale Sherwood
Musical Director
Alfred Newman
Suzie
Mary Ruth
Davis
John St. Polis
Menken
Alexander Schoenberg
Mrs. Miller
Marjorie Main
Miller
Arthur Hohl
Heifetz' Manager
Paul Harvey
Sucker the Dog
Zero
Peter Meremblum
Peter Meremblum
(uncredited)
Calvin Leslie
Woman on Steps (uncredited)
Effie Anderson
Woman in Alley Yelling for Police (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
Detective (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
Accompanist for 'Hora staccato' (uncredited)
Emanuel Bay
Man in Concert Audience (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Cellist in Meremblum Orchestra (uncredited)
Richard Berres
Policeman at Police Station (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Kid in Orchestra (uncredited)
Morris Boltuch
Bill - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Violinist (uncredited)
Raymond D. Bowman
Willie's Mother (uncredited)
Virginia Brissac
Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
Dorothy Christy
Henry - Heifetz's Butler (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Girl in Orchestra (uncredited)
Kaye Connor
A Woman in Line (uncredited)
Dulcie Day
Pawn Broker (uncredited)
Joe De Stefani
Concertgoer Throwing Tickets Away (uncredited)
Alan Edwards
Violinist (uncredited)
Virginia Ellis
Woman on Steps (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
James Flavin
Detective (uncredited)
John Hamilton
Policeman at Barney's Pool Room (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Michael - Deputy (uncredited)
Roger Imhof
Mr. Morgam (uncredited)
Perry Ivins
Mr. Wallace (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Kelly (uncredited)
John Kelly
Film Delivery Man (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
Woman in Line (uncredited)
Maude Louis
Clarinetist in Orchestra (uncredited)
Mitchell Lurie
Pianist (uncredited)
Diana Lynn
Police Chief (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald
Deputy (uncredited)
Louis Mason
Man in Concert Audience
Eric Mayne
Woman on Steps (uncredited)
Anne O'Neal
Policeman in Rain (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman in Auditorium (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Violinist (uncredited)
Edwina Pierce
Violinist (uncredited)
Annette Ruderman
Heifetz's Accompanist (uncredited)
Theodore Saidenberg
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
Inspector Johnson (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Elizabeth Valentine
Police Chief's Aide (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Usher in Carnegie Hall (uncredited)
Bryant Washburn Jr.
Film Delivery Man (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Betty's Mother (uncredited)
Marjorie Wood
Cellist in Orchestra (uncredited)
Mary Louise Zeyen