
The THRILL of great music... the LAUGHTER of youth... the TENDERNESS of age
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.

Jascha Heifetz
Himself

Joel McCrea
Peter McCarthy

Andrea Leeds
Ann Lawson

Gene Reynolds
Frankie

Walter Brennan
Professor Lawson

Terry Kilburn
Limey

Tommy Kelly
Willie

Porter Hall
Mr. Flower

Walter Tetley
Rocks Mulligan
Chuck Stubbs
Fever

Gale Sherwood
Betty

Alfred Newman
Musical Director
Mary Ruth
Suzie

John St. Polis
Davis
Alexander Schoenberg
Menken