Edna May Oliver as Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers Robert Armstrong as Barry Costello James Gleason as Inspector Oscar Piper Mae Clarke as Gwen Parker Donald Cook as Philip Seymour Edgar Kennedy as Policeman Donovan Clarence Wilson as Bertrand B. Hemingway James Donlan as Security Guard Fink Gustav von Seyffertitz as Von Donnen/Dr Max Bloom Joe Hermano as Chicago Lew Guy Usher as Gerald Parker Rochelle Hudson as Parker's Telephone Operator Wilfrid North as The Judge Conway Tearle as Steven Kennedy Irene Rich as Joan Manners Mary Carlisle as Constance 'Connie' Kennedy Kenneth Thomson as Schuyler Durkin William B. Davidson as District Attorney William Irving as Jury Foreman