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Show Boat

HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:
1936 | 113m | English

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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.
Release Date: May 17, 1936
Director: James Whale
Writer: Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein II
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
Keywords new year's eve, mississippi river, musical, showboat
Production Companies Universal Pictures
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Mar 22, 2025
Entered: Apr 20, 2024
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Name Character
Irene Dunne Magnolia Hawkes
Allan Jones Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger Cap'n Andy Hawkes
Paul Robeson Joe
Helen Morgan Julie LaVerne
Helen Westley Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes
Queenie Smith Ellie May Chipley
Sammy White Frank Schultz
Donald Cook Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney Rubber Face
Marilyn Knowlden Kim as a Child
Sunnie O'Dea Kim - at Sixteen
Arthur Hohl Pete
Charles Middleton Sheriff Ike Vallon
Clarence Muse Sam
E. E. Clive Sir Arthur
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Boonville man speaking film's first line
J. Farrell MacDonald Windy MacLaine
Maude Allen
Ricca Allen
William Alston
Harry Barris
May Beatty
Brooks Benedict
Barbara Bletcher
Mary Bovard
Donald Briggs
Betty Brown
Daisy Bufford
Ann Bupp (uncredited)
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 Zebe (uncredited)
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 C. Wilson
Name Job
James Whale Director
Edna Ferber Novel
Oscar Hammerstein II Book, Lyricist, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Doris Zinkeisen Costume Design
Jack Pierce Makeup Artist
Jerome Kern Songs, Original Music Composer, Music, Theatre Play
Doris Carico Hairstylist
Joe Torillo Assistant Director
John J. Mescall Director of Photography
Joseph A. McDonough Assistant Director
Charles D. Hall Art Direction
Ted J. Kent Editor
Harry Mieneke Assistant Director
Charles Gorman Makeup Artist
Bernard W. Burton Editor
Vera West Costume Design
Gilbert Kurland Sound Supervisor
Victor Baravalle Music Director
Name Title
Carl Laemmle Jr. Producer
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