

Show Boat
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
6.84 votes on TMDB1929Movie2h 26m
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
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]
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Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
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