 Linda Darnell | (Virginia Clemm) |
| John Shepperd | (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| Virginia Gilmore | (Elmira Royster) |
| Jane Darwell | (Mariah Clemm) |
| Mary Howard | (Frances Allan) |
| Frank Conroy | (John Allan) |
| Henry Morgan | (Ebenezer Burling) |
| Walter Kingsford | (T.W. White) |
| Morris Ankrum | (Monsieur Graham) |
| Skippy Wanders | (Edgar Allan Poe, à 3 ans) |
| Freddie Mercer | (Edgar Allan Poe, à 12 ans) |
| Erville Alderson | (le professeur) |
| Peggy McIntyre | (Elmira Royster, à 10 ans) |
| William Bakewell | (Hugh Pleasants) |
| Frank Melton | (Turner Dixon) |
| Morton Lowry | (Charles Dickens) |
| Gilbert Emery | (Thomas Jefferson) |
| Ed Stanley | (le docteur Moran) |
| Francis Ford | (le patron de la taverne) |
| Harry Denny | (Kennedy) |
| Hardie Albright | (Shelton) |
| Jan Clayton | (la mère de Poe, jeune) |
| Mae Marsh | (Madame Phillips) |
| George Harris | (un garçon) |
| Sonny Bupp | (un garçon) |
| Leon Tyler | (un garçon) |
| George Reed | (le domestique) |
| Stanley Logan | (Royster) |
| Margaret Fielding | (une douairière) |
| Charlotte Treadway | (une douairière) |
| Ralph McCullough | (le messager) |
| Alec Craig | (un imprimeur) |
| Howard Lane | (un imprimeur) |
| Otto Hoffman | (un imprimeur) |
| Arthur Shields | (Somes, le fondé de pouvoir) |
| Boyd Irwin | |