Show Boat
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
6.8
4 votes
March 16, 1929
2h 26m
Overview
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
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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
WindyJane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
Neely Edwards
SchultzyElise 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.
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