A senator from Hamburg, frozen in old-fashioned gentility, attempts to consolidate his cigarette factory by marrying off his daughter to the son of his competition. His eccentric, nosy old sister, with no life of her own back in southern Germany, sends him a lawyer to keep an eye on the going-ons in the house.

Betty Bird
Steffi Andersen

Walter Gross
Wallner jun.

Paul Henckels
Senator Karl Andersen

Fritz Kampers
Dr. Fritz Göricke

Rudolf Platte
Theo Keller

Adele Sandrock
Johanna Andersen

Hilde Maroff

Valy Arnheim
Jonny

Evi Eva

Gina Falckenberg
Helene Andersen (Daughter)
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
Hadrian Maria Netto
Dodo van Doeren
Franz Weber
Zöllner

Paul Westermeier
Wallner sen.