Waters as Esther Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Rev. Lazarus Thomas Mitchell as [John] Halloway Eugene Pallette as Luther Cesar Romero as Harry [Wilson] Gail Patrick as Ellen Roland Young as Edgar Marion Martin as Squirrel Elsa Lanchester as Mrs. [Elsa] Smith Victor Francen as Arturo Bellini George Sanders as Williams James Gleason as "Father" Joe Harry Davenport as Professor Lyons J. Carrol Naish as Costello The Hall Johnson Choir as Themselves Frank Orth as Second-hand Clothes Dealer Christian Rub as Wilson Sig Arno as Piccolo Player James Rennie as Hank Bronson Harry Hayden as David Morris Ankrum as Judge Don Douglas as Henderson Mae Marsh as Molly Clarence Muse as Grandpa George Reed as Christopher Cordell Hickman as Nicodemus Paul Renay as "Spud" Johnson Barbara Lynn as Mary Adeline De Walt Reynolds as Grandmother (as Adeline DeWalt Reynolds) Helene Reynolds as Actress Deleted sixth tale A sixth tale featured W. C. Fields, Phil Silvers and Margaret Dumont. A conman (Fields) buys the jacket from the second-hand store that acquired it from the rescue mission of the fourth tale, thinking that it is stuffed with money from its former owner, who, according to the crooked shop salesman (Silvers), was "a millionaire". The conman wears the jacket to a lecture he is to give on abstinence from alcohol at the home of a wealthy woman (Dumont), where the coconut milk served as an alcohol alternative has been spiked with booze by her husband—turning the lecture into a drunken party. The sequence was written primarily by Bert Lawrence, Anne Wigton, William Morrow and Edmund Beloin, with director Mal St. Clair "advising (Duvivier) on gags and comedy routines for Fields and other comics." This tale was fifth in the sequence and was cut when the film was released to reduce running time. It was the easiest to cut without losing continuity, and, ironically, it was by far the funniest. Some sources indicate the "running time" was a convenient excuse; others among the cast were unhappy about the Fields sequence taking attention away from the rest of the film. This sequence was discovered in the Fox vaults in the mid-1990s seemingly intact. It was used in Kevin Burns' Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults, a 1997 television documentary spotlighting cut sequences from the studio's films. It was later included as a supplement on the VHS release of the film. The