Show Boat

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

Directed by Harry A. Pollard

Top 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

Windy

J

Jane La Verne

Magnolia as Child / Kim

Neely Edwards

Schultzy

E

Elise Bartlett

Elly

Stepin Fetchit

Joe

Jules Bledsoe

Joe [prologue]

T

Tess Gardella

Queenie [prologue]

Carl Laemmle

Himself [prologue]

Helen Morgan

Julie LaVerne [prologue]

F

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Himself [prologue]

Max Asher

Utility Man

Matthew Beard

Child

George Chesebro

Steve Baker

J

Jim Coleman

Stagehand

C

Claude Collins

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