"New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium."
Edna May Oliver
as Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
Robert Armstrong
as Barry Costello
James Gleason
as Police Inspector Oscar Piper
Mae Clarke
as Gwen Parker
Donald Cook
as Philip Seymour
Edgar Kennedy
as Officer Donovan
Clarence Wilson
as Bertrand B. Hemingway
James Donlan
as Security Guard Fink
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as Von Donnen / Dr. Max Bloom
William Le Maire
as MacDonald
Joe Hermano
as Chicago Lew
Guy Usher
as Parker
Rochelle Hudson
as Telephone Operator
Wilfrid North
as Judge
Sidney Miller
as Student with Glasses Isadore Marks (uncredited)
A.S. Byron
as Jailer Strauss (uncredited)
Edith Fellows
as Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
as Jack, Policeman (uncredited)
Mary Mason
as Parker's Secretary (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
as Purse Snatching Victim at Aquarium (uncredited)
Lowell Brentano
Story
Stuart Palmer
Novel
George Archainbaud
Director
Willis Goldbeck
Screenplay
Hugh McDowell Jr.
Sound Recordist
Jack Kitchin
Editor
Kenneth Macgowan
Associate Producer
David O. Selznick
Executive Producer
Fred Schuessler
Casting
Russell Metty
Camera Operator
Ray Lissner
Assistant Director
Henry W. Gerrard
Director of Photography
Stunts
Willard Barth
Assistant Camera
Dick Stockton
Casting Assistant
Robert Margolis
Harry Redmond Sr.
Special Effects Supervisor
Max Steiner
Music Director