Show Boat

Show Boat (1929)

Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1929-07-27
  • User Rating: 5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 26min
  • Language: No Language
  • Production Company: Universal Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Harry A. Pollard
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Summary

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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  • Laura La Plante

    as Magnolia

  • Joseph Schildkraut

    as Gaylord Ravenal

  • Emily Fitzroy

    as Parthenia Ann Hawks

  • Otis Harlan

    as Capt. Andy Hawks

  • Alma Rubens

    as Julie Dozier

  • Jack McDonald

    as Windy

  • Jane La Verne

    as Magnolia as Child / Kim

  • Neely Edwards

    as Schultzy

  • Elise Bartlett

    as Elly

  • Stepin Fetchit

    as Joe

  • Jules Bledsoe

    as Joe [prologue]

  • Tess Gardella

    as Queenie [prologue]

  • Carl Laemmle

    as Himself [prologue]

  • Helen Morgan

    as Julie LaVerne [prologue]

  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

    as Himself [prologue]

  • Max Asher

    as Utility Man

  • Matthew Beard

    as Child

  • George Chesebro

    as Steve Baker

  • Jim Coleman

    as Stagehand

  • Claude Collins

    as

  • Carl Herlinger

    as Wheelsman (uncredited)

  • Harry Holden

    as Means

  • Gertrude Howard

    as Queenie

  • Theodore Lorch

    as Frank

  • Ralph Yearsley

    as The Killer
Camera Gilbert Warrenton Director of Photography
Sound Jack Foley Foley Artist
Directing Harry A. Pollard Director
Writing Oscar Hammerstein II Lyricist
Sound Jerome Kern Songs
Art Charles D. Hall Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Johanna Mathieson Costume Design
Editing Daniel Mandell Editor
Writing Edward J. Montaigne Story Supervisor
Directing Robert Ross Assistant Director
Writing Edna Ferber Writer
Sound Tom Reed Dialogue Editor
Sound Joseph Cherniavsky Music
Sound Harry A. Pollard Dialogue Editor

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