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Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs.
Show Boat: Directed by Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath. With Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan. A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath
- 1929-07-28
Magnolia becomes pregnant, but on the night that her baby daughter Kim is born, a violent storm breaks out, and Captain Andy falls overboard and drowns. Now faced with Parthy running the boat, Magnolia and Ravenal decide to leave and go to Chicago with Kim.
Show Boat is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber, not, as has been often claimed, on the Kern-Hammerstein stage musical, although the film does have songs.
Based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber (Garden City, NY, 1926) and the musical of the same name by Edna Ferber, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II (New York, 27 Dec 1927).
- Harry Pollard, Arch Heath, Robert Ross
- Helen Morgan
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s immortal musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s sprawling novel receives its most faithful and enduring cinematic treatment under the elegant direction of James Whale.
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.
