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"Just out of college and just out of luck...yet they'll found a family on nerve...build a home on bravery...battle the world with a diploma...and defy the world on $18-a-week!"
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.
45 Cast Members
Franchot Tone
Bob Bailey
Jean Muir
Trudy Talbot
Margaret Lindsay
Joan Harper
Ann Dvorak
Susan Merrill
Ross Alexander
Tom Martin
Dick Foran
Smudge Casey
Charles Starrett
Stephen Hornblow
Russell Hicks
Newspaper Editor
Robert Light
Fred Harper
Addison Richards
Martinson
Henry O'Neill
Mr. Harper
Arthur Aylesworth
Mr. Gillespie
Marjorie Gateson
Mrs. Harper
Bradley Page
Al Ludlow
Brandon Beach
Third Broker
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
Young Man
James P. Burtis
Moe
Nina Campana
Italian Wife
Eddy Chandler
Police Officer
Joseph Crehan
Haskins
