Show Boat (1929)
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Rated
NR
Year
1929
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
16 March 1929
TMDB
6.8 (4)
CineVerse
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Laura La Plante
Magnolia
Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal
Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks
Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks
Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier
Jack McDonald
Windy
J
Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
Neely Edwards
Schultzy
E
Elise Bartlett
Elly
Stepin Fetchit
Joe
Jules Bledsoe
Joe [prologue]
T
Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
Carl Laemmle
Himself [prologue]
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]
F
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]
Max Asher
Utility Man
Matthew Beard
Child
George Chesebro
Steve Baker
J
Jim Coleman
Stagehand
C
Claude Collins
C
Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)
H
Harry Holden
Means
Gertrude Howard
Queenie
Theodore Lorch
Frank
Ralph Yearsley
The Killer
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