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
