Movie Description
Show Boat
(1936)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : James Whale
- Producer : Carl Laemmle Jr.
- Editor : Bernard W. Burton,Ted J. Kent
- Cast : Irene Dunne,Allan Jones,Charles Winninger,Paul Robeson,Helen Morgan,Helen Westley,Queenie Smith,Sammy White,Donald Cook,Hattie McDaniel,Francis X. Mahoney,Marilyn Knowlden,Sunnie O'Dea,Arthur Hohl,Charles Middleton,Clarence Muse,E. E. Clive,Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson,J. Farrell MacDonald,Maude Allen,Ricca Allen,William Alston,Harry Barris,May Beatty,Brooks Benedict,Barbara Bletcher,Mary Bovard,Donald Briggs,Betty Brown,Daisy Bufford,Ann Bupp,James P. Burtis,Eddy Chandler,E. E. Clive,Edmund Cobb,Maxine Cook,D'Arcy Corrigan,Grace Cunard,J. Gunnis Davis,Anna Demetrio,Helen Dickson,Jeanette Dickson,Elspeth Dudgeon,Helen Jerome Eddy,Kathleen Ellis,Al Ferguson,Stanley Fields,Flora Finch,Artye Folz,June Glory,Dorothy Granger,Marilyn Harris,Helen Hayward,Ernest Hilliard,Arthur Housman,Selmer Jackson,Matthew Jones,Jane Keckley,Isabel La Mal,Jack Latham,Frank Mayo,Martha Merrill,Monte Montague,Juanita Moore,Jack Mulhall,Harold Nelson,Georgia O'Dell,Dennis O'Keefe,Edward Peil Sr.,Barbara Pepper,Lee Phelps,LeRoy Prinz,George H. Reed,Tom Ricketts,Donna Mae Roberts,Louise Robinson,Betty Roche,Alma Ross,Tiny Sandford,Forrest Stanley,Mary Stewart,Frances Turham,Maidel Turner,Lois Verner,Harold Waldridge,Marguerite Warner,Billy Watson,Bobs Watson,Delmar Watson,Harry Watson,Lloyd Whitlock,Renee Whitney,Frank Whitson,Charles Cahill Wilson,Neşet Berküren,Orhon Murat Arıburnu
Cast
Magnolia Hawkes
Gaylord Ravenal
Cap'n Andy Hawkes
Joe
Julie LaVerne
Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes
Ellie May Chipley
Frank Schultz
Steve Baker
Queenie
Rubber Face
Kim as a Child
Kim - at Sixteen
Pete
Sheriff Ike Vallon
Sam
Sir Arthur
Boonville man speaking film's first line
Windy MacLaine
(uncredited)
Zebe (uncredited)
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Facts
Original TitleShow Boat
Status Released
Release Information
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1936-05-17
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 53m
Budget₹ 1194943
Production CompaniesUniversal Pictures
Genres
- Music
- Romance
- Drama
