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Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Directed by
Richard Whorf
June Allyson
Jane Witherspoon / Lou Ellen Carter
Dinah Shore
Una Trance / Dinah Shore
Lena Horne
Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
Van Heflin
James I. Hessler
Cyd Charisse
Dance Specialty
Gower Champion
Dance Specialty
Kathryn Grayson
Magnolia Hawks / Kathryn Grayson
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Ed (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Victor Herbert
Bert Moorhouse
Elite Club Diner (uncredited)
Sally Forrest
Showgirl (uncredited)
Lucille Bremer
Sally Hessler
Virginia O'Brien
Ellie May Shipley / Virginia O'Brien
William Phillips
Joe Hennessey
Angela Lansbury
London Specialty
Bess Flowers
Backstage Well-Wisher (uncredited)
Mary Nash
Mrs. Muller
Robert Walker
Jerome Kern
Byron Foulger
Frohman's Secretary (uncredited)
Ray Teal
Movie Studio Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
Tony Martin
Gaylord Ravenal / Tony Martin
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Show Boat Orchestra Drummer (uncredited)
Judy Garland
Marilyn Miller
Dorothy Patrick
Eva Kern
Frank McLure
Stage Door Johnny (uncredited)
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Harry Hayden
Charles Frohman
Mary Hatcher
Showgirl (uncredited)
Ray McDonald
Dance Specialty / George Budd
Van Johnson
Bandleader in Elite Club
Esther Williams
Esther Williams - Signing Autographs (uncredited)
Paul Langton
Oscar Hammerstein II
Russell Hicks
Producer (uncredited)
Lyn Wilde
Specialty (segment 'The Cat and the Fiddle') (uncredited)
Lee Wilde
Specialty (segment 'The Cat and the Fiddle') (uncredited)
Caleb Peterson
Joe (segment "Show Boat")
Joan Wells
Sally Hessler as a Girl

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