| | | | New York 2010 |
| | Angela | Grecco | A girl who wrote a letter to Vivian. |
| | Vivian Louise | Morris | Protagonist. Narrator. |
| 1 | Aunt | Peg | Vivian's aunt. Vivian's legal guardian. |
| | Walter | Morris | Vivian's older brother. |
| | Grandma | Morris | Vivian's grandmother. A seamstress. |
| 2 | Billy | Buell | Peg's husband. Wealthy man. Aka: William Ackerman Buell III. |
| | William | Powell | An actor. |
| | Walter | Winchell | A gossip columnist. |
| | Louella | Parsons | A gossip columnist. |
| | Olive | Thompson | Peg's secretary. A resident zookeeper. |
| 3 | Gladys | | Peg's dance captain. |
| | Celia | Ray | Showgirl at Lily's
Playhouse. Aka: Theresa Beneventi. |
| | Roland | | One of the dancers at Lily Playhouse. |
| | Donald | Herbert | The playwright at Lily's Playhouse. |
| | Mr. | Benjamin | The singer-songwriter at Lily's Playhouse. |
| | Katherine | Gibbs | Owner of a typing school. |
| | Evelyn | | Celia's friend. |
| 4 | Bernadette | | Peg's maid. |
| 5 | Jennie | | One of the showgirls at Lily's Playhouse. |
| | Betty | | Vivian's childhood best friend. |
| | Harold | Kellogg | A doctor. A man who deflowered Vivian. |
| | Mrs. | Kellogg | Harold's wife. |
| 7 | Kevin | O'Sullivan | Vivian's ex-lover. Aka: Ribsy. |
| 8 | Franklin | D. Roosevelt | The current U.S. President. |
| | Clark | Gable | An American film actor. |
| | Ria | F. Langham | Clark's second wife. |
| | Edna | P. Watson | Peg's old friend. A famous British actress. |
| | Arthur | Watson | A handsome screen actor. Edna's husband. |
| 9 | George | B. Shaw | A playwright. |
| | Alfred | Lunt | A stage actor. |
| | Coco | Chanel | A French fashion designer. |
| 10 | Marjorie | Lowtsky | Mr. Lowtsky's daughter. |
| | Mr. | Lowtsky | Marjorie's father. Owner of Lowtsky's
Used Emporium. |
| | Mrs. | Lowtsky | Marjorie's mother. |
| 11 | Jean | Marie | Billy's secretary. |
| | Joan | Fontaine | Billy's mistress. |
| | Brian | Aherne | Billy's friend. |
| | Camilla | | One of Billy's mistresses. |
| 13 | Mrs. | Alabaster | Edna's character at the play called City of Girls. |
| | Victoria | Alabaster | Mrs. Alabaster's daughter. |
| | Daisy | | One of the showgirls at Lily's Playhouse. |
| | Lucky | Bobby | Daisy's husband at the play called City of Girls. |
| 14 | Anthony | Rocella | Vivian's first boyfriend. |
| | Lorenzo | Rocella | Anthony's brother.
Head chef at Latin Quarter Restaurant. |
| 15 | Miriam | | The girlfriend of the sailor. |
| 16 | Brooks | Atkinson | A famous American critic. |
| | Heywood | Broun | An American journalist. |
| | Dwight | Miller | A journalist from New York World Telegram. |
| | Walter | Winchell | A columnist from New York Daily Mirror. |
| | Thomas | Lesig | A columnist from The Morning Telegraph. |
| | Nicholas | Flint | A journalist from New York Daily News. |
| | Kit | Yardley | A journalist from New York Sun. |
| 17 | Helena | Rubenstein | A cosmetic entrepreneur. |
| | Katherine | Hepburn | An American actress. |
| | Alexander | Woollcott | A theater critic. |
| 18 | Brenda | Frazier | Celia's new friend. Kelly's celebrated girlfriend. |
| | Shipwreck | Kelly | Celia's new friend. Brenda's celebrated boyfriend. |
| 19 | Stan | Weinberg | Peg's old friend. An editor at the Mirror. |
| | James | | A doorman at the Stork. |
| | Nick | | A doorman at the Stork. |
| | Sherman | Billingsley | The Stork Club's owner. |
| | Rose | Bigman | Winchell's secretary. |
| | Walda | Winchell | Walter's daughter. |
| 22 | Bess | Farmer | Vivian's childhood friend. |
| | Jim | Larsen | Worked for Douglas's Mining Company. Vivian's ex-fiance. |
| 23 | Madeleine | | Vivian's childhood friend. |
| | Louise | Morris | Vivian's mother. |
| | Douglas | Morris | Vivian's father. Peg's brother. |
| | Helena | Hayes | A theater actress who replaced Edna in the play City of Girls. |
| 24 | Harry | James | An American Musician. |
| 25 | Mike | Roemer | The telegraph operator at Western Union. |
| | Mrs. | Roemer | Mike's wife. |
| | Leslie | Gehres | Walter's captain. |
| | Mr. | Gershon | Vivian's Navy Censor. |
| | Mrs. | Levinson | Vivian's workmate. |
| 26 | Christian | Dior | A French fashion designer. |
| | Roger | Alderman | Vivian's former lover. |
| | Botond | | A young Hungarian painter. Vivian's former lover. |
| | Hugh | | One of Vivian's ex-lovers. |
| 28 | Marty | | Vivian's friend. |
| | Karen | | Vivian's friend. A receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art. |
| | Rowan | | Vivian's friend. A gynecologist. |
| | Susan | | Vivian's friend. A grade school teacher. |
| | Callie | | Vivian's friend. Owner of a flower shop. |
| | Anita | | Vivian's friend. |
| | George | | A man who impregnates Marjorie. |
| | Nathan | Lowtsky | Marjorie's son. |
| | Palma | | Nathan's nanny. |
| 29 | Frank | Grecco | The only man that Vivian loved. Angela's father. |
| | Rosella | Grecco | Frank's wife. |
| 31 | Tom | Denno | Frank's colleague during war. |
| 32 | Winston | | Angela's fiancé. |
