Ruth Chatterton

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Pierre Blanchar

Napoléon Bonaparte

Frank Cellier

Talleyrand

Carol Goodner

Madame Tallien

Auriol Lee

La mère de Napoléon

George Curzon

Barras

David Farrar

Louis Bonaparte

Laurence Hanray

Klemens von Metternich

John Laurie

Joseph Bonaparte

Jack Hawkins

Capitaine Charles

Allan Jeayes

Marat

Rosalyn Boulter

Hortense

Romilly Lunge

Junot

Hubert Harben

DeTracy

Sonia Carol

Eliza (uncredited)

Ivy Shannon

Caroline (uncredited)

Julian Somers

Lucien Bonaparte (uncredited)

Tamara d'Etter

Pauline (uncredited)

Maureen Glynne

Hortense as a child (uncredited)