Film · 1936

Show Boat

113 min · Directed by James Whale · NR

6.749
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HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Cast

Irene Dunne

Magnolia Hawkes

Allan Jones

Gaylord Ravenal

Charles Winninger

Cap'n Andy Hawkes

Paul Robeson

Joe

Helen Morgan

Julie LaVerne

Helen Westley

Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes

Queenie Smith

Ellie May Chipley

Sammy White

Frank Schultz

Donald Cook

Steve Baker

Hattie McDaniel

Queenie

F

Francis X. Mahoney

Rubber Face

Marilyn Knowlden

Kim as a Child

Sunnie O'Dea

Kim - at Sixteen

Arthur Hohl

Pete

Charles Middleton

Sheriff Ike Vallon

Clarence Muse

Sam

E. E. Clive

Sir Arthur

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Boonville man speaking film's first line

J. Farrell MacDonald

Windy MacLaine

M

Maude Allen

Ricca Allen

W

William Alston

Harry Barris

May Beatty

Crew

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Writer: Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein II
Editor: Bernard W. Burton, Ted J. Kent
Cinematography: John J. Mescall
Art Direction: Charles D. Hall
Composer: Jerome Kern
Costume: Doris Zinkeisen, Vera West
Makeup: Charles Gorman, Jack Pierce

Details

Studios: Universal Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Certification: NR
Release: May 17, 1936

Themes

new year's evemississippi rivermusicalshowboat

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