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A musical romantic drama film based on the 1927 stage musical and the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, and was shot in Technicolor by MGM.
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
Find out who starred in the 1951 musical film adaptation of Show Boat, based on the play and novel by Edna Ferber. See the names and roles of the actors, directors, producers, writers, and more.
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Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.
It's an Oscar-nominated musical look at the lives and loves of a show boat theater troupe aboard an old-fashioned Mississippi riverboat. Featuring all-American classic songs by Oscar...
With the show derailed by the "Hillbilly Patron," (Stanley Fields) Cap'n Andy (Charles Winninger) recaptures the audience with some inspired vamping in James Whale's Show Boat, 1936, from the Edna Ferber novel.
Show Boat: Directed by James Whale. With Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson. Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
