Show Boat
HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:
1936•1h 53m•6.7/10
MusicRomanceDrama
Ratings
🎬TMDb
6.7/10(51)
Sheltered beauty Magnolia Hawkes takes over as the leading lady on a Mississippi riverboat show when mixed-race Julie and her white husband are forced out of town by a prejudiced sheriff. Charismatic opportunist Gaylord Ravenal wins Magnolia's heart, but his gambling losses threaten to ruin their chances for a happy marriage.
Production
Universal Pictures
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
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Cast
Irene Dunne
Magnolia Hawkes
Allan Jones
Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger
Cap'n Andy Hawkes
Paul Robeson
Joe
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne
Helen Westley
Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes
Queenie Smith
Ellie May Chipley
Sammy White
Frank Schultz
Donald Cook
Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel
Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney
Rubber Face
Marilyn Knowlden
Kim as a Child
Sunnie O'Dea
Kim - at Sixteen
Arthur Hohl
Pete
Charles Middleton
Sheriff Ike Vallon
Clarence Muse
Sam
E. E. Clive
Sir Arthur
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Boonville man speaking film's first line
J. Farrell MacDonald
Windy MacLaine
Maude Allen
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