Kathryn Grayson
Magnolia Hawks
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Show Boat. Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber 's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Show Boat: Directed by George Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown. The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- George Sidney
- 1951-09-24
Show Boat. (1951 film) Show Boat is a 1951 American musical romantic drama film, based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), and the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber. It was made by MGM, adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George ...
The first show of its kind, Show Boat presented complex characters grappling with timely, realistic themes woven into a substantial plot. Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, the epic narrative concerns the lives, loves and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk and their lifelong friends on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway.
Show Boat’s Racially Charged History Show Boat remains enduringly relevant and enduringly problematic because of its racially charged themes and history. Certainly, Hammerstein and Kern were well-intentioned in their efforts to create meaningful material for a Black singer-actor and to welcome a Black ensemble onto the same stage where a white ensemble performed in the same show—a move ...
Show Boat Stage SynopsisStills from the 1927 Original Broadway ProductionACT ONEOn a levee on the Mississippi River in the late 1880s, workers load cotton bales while townspeople crowd around a showboat (“Cotton Blossom”). As Captain Andy Hawks leads the Show Boat Parade, he introduces varying talents presented aboard the Cotton Blossom (“Show Boat Parade and Ballyhoo”). When the ...
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A rich portrait of changing American entertainment traditions and race relations, Show Boat spans five decades and three generations as it follows the fortunes of the stagestruck Magnolia (Irene Dunne), an aspiring actor whose journey takes her from her family’s humble floating playhouse in the 1880s South to the bright footlights of the ...
