Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Rosemary
Gordon Comstock
Ravenscroft Waiter
Erskine
Julia Comstock
Ravelston
Mrs Meakin
Dora
Hermione
Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
Mrs. Wisbeach
McKechnie
Paul Doring