Show Boat

Show Boat

146 mins | Drama | July 27, 1929

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

Show Boat

146 mins | Drama | July 27, 1929

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
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Show Boat
Directors Harry A. Pollard, Robert Ross
Writers Edward J. Montaigne, Edna Ferber

Cast

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

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

George Chesebro

as Steve Baker

Jim Coleman

as Stagehand

Carl Herlinger

as Wheelsman

Harry Holden

as Means

Gertrude Howard

as Queenie

Theodore Lorch

as Frank

Ralph Yearsley

as The Killer