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Show Boat
1929, Jul 27
2h 26m
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
Directed by
Harry A. Pollard
Written by
Edna Ferber
Laura La Plante
Magnolia
Matthew Beard
Child
Stepin Fetchit
Joe
Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks
Theodore Lorch
Frank
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal
Jack McDonald
Windy
Max Asher
Utility Man
Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks
George Chesebro
Steve Baker
Neely Edwards
Schultzy
Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier
Gertrude Howard
Queenie
Jules Bledsoe
Joe [prologue]
Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
Elise Bartlett
Elly
Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]
Jim Coleman
Stagehand
Claude Collins
Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)
Harry Holden
Means
Ralph Yearsley
The Killer
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