Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Paul Muni
as Orin Nordholm Jr.
Aline MacMahon
as Anna Nordholm
Mary Astor
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Donald Cook
as Richard Nordholm
Jean Muir
as Selma Peterson / Granddaughter Selma
Guy Kibbee
as James Claffin
Mickey Rooney
as Otto Peterson as a Child
Patricia Ellis
as Natalie Clifton Nordholm
Theodore Newton
as Paul Nordholm
Margaret Lindsay
as Jennifer Nordholm
Gordon Westcott
as John Nordholm
Henry O'Neill
as Orin Nordholm Sr.
