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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
Matthew Beard
Child
Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal
Theodore Lorch
Frank
Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier
Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks
Stepin Fetchit
Joe
George Chesebro
Steve Baker
Laura La Plante
Magnolia
Jack McDonald
Windy
Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks
Neely Edwards
Schultzy
Gertrude Howard
Queenie
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Max Asher
Utility Man
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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