Best Foot Forward

Beverly Tyler as Vocalist Chill Wills as Chester Short Donald MacBride as Capt. Bradd Billy Bletcher as Waxer Lucille Ball as Lucille Ball Henry O'Neill as Maj. Roger W. Reeber Caren Marsh as Dancer June Allyson as Ethel William Gaxton as Jack O'Riley Virginia Weidler as Helen Schlesinger Nancy Walker as Nancy - Blind Date Harry Hayden as Prof. Walter Morton Robert Emmett O'Connor as Train Conductor Nana Bryant as Mrs. Dalrymple Harry James as Himself Darwood Kaye as Killer James Ellison as Cadet Jack Lindquist as Cadet Isabel Randolph as Mrs. Morton Stanley Donen as Cadet Colin Kenny as Party Guest Sara Haden as Miss Talbert Bess Flowers as Prom Guest Gil Stratton as Cadet Barbara Bedford as Chaperone at Dance Gloria DeHaven as Minerva Fierce Morris Ankrum as Col. Harkrider

Cedric Gibbons Art Direction Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration Irene Costume Supervisor