Poster of Show Boat

Show Boat

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

Release Date: 1929-07-27

Original Language: en

Genres: Drama

Rating:

Popularity:

1.216

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Cast Members

Joseph Schildkraut

Gaylord Ravenal

Emily Fitzroy

Parthenia Ann Hawks

Otis Harlan

Capt. Andy Hawks

Alma Rubens

Julie Dozier

Jane La Verne

Magnolia as Child / Kim

Jules Bledsoe

Joe [prologue]

Tess Gardella

Queenie [prologue]

Carl Laemmle

Himself [prologue]

Helen Morgan

Julie LaVerne [prologue]

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Himself [prologue]

Max Asher

Utility Man

George Chesebro

Steve Baker

Jim Coleman

Stagehand

Carl Herlinger

Wheelsman (uncredited)

Ralph Yearsley

The Killer