Show Boat

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

star 5 6.1
  • Release Date: 1929-07-27
  • Runtime: 2h 26min
  • Director: Harry A. Pollard

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Cast

  • 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

  • Jane La Verne

    Magnolia as Child / Kim

  • Neely Edwards

    Schultzy

  • Elise Bartlett

    Elly

  • Stepin Fetchit

    Joe

  • Jules Bledsoe

    Joe [prologue]

  • Tess Gardella

    Queenie [prologue]

  • Carl Laemmle

    Himself [prologue]

  • Helen Morgan

    Julie LaVerne [prologue]

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

    Himself [prologue]

  • Max Asher

    Utility Man

  • Matthew Beard

    Child

  • George Chesebro

    Steve Baker

  • Jim Coleman

    Stagehand

  • Claude Collins

  • Carl Herlinger

    Wheelsman (uncredited)

  • Harry Holden

    Means

  • Gertrude Howard

    Queenie

  • Theodore Lorch

    Frank

  • Ralph Yearsley

    The Killer

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