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  2. Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s.

  3. Show Boat, popular sentimental novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1926. The book chronicles three generations of a theatrical family who perform and live on a Mississippi River steamboat. It was the basis of a successful Broadway musical and has been produced several times for film and television.

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  4. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap'n Andy, his shrewd wife Parthy, and their beautiful daughter Magnolia her remarkable daughter Kim was made famous on Broadway in 1927, when the legendary Jerome S. Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on the musical.

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  5. Apr 15, 2022 · Set against the backdrop of a Mississippi River showboat, this narrative intertwines the lives of performers and crew members, offering a panoramic view of society's transformations and the pursuit of dreams.

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  6. The classic tale behind MGM’s blockbuster movie directed by George Sidney, starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Bringing to life the adventurous world of Mississippi show boats, the grittiness of turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the majesty of 1920s Broadway, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber’s Show Boat is a classic.

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  8. Show Boat: A Novel. Edna Ferber. Fawcett Crest, 1971 - Fiction - 256 pages. The story of Magnolia Ravenal and of her marriage to the river gambler, Gaylord Ravenal, black sheep of an aristocratic...

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