Show Boat (VHS, 1990) 
Show Boat (VHS, 1990)

 
Show Boat (VHS, 1990)

Leading Role: Irene Dunne
Director: James Whale
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Apr 1990
Format: VHS
UPC: 027616175731
Product ID: EPID3130401
Description: James Whale's adaptation of the Edna Ferber book/Kern-Hammerstein musical is considered the best of the three screen versions exploring the intertwining lives of a Mississippi showboat troupe. After leading couple Julie (Helen Morgan) an...
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Movie Description
James Whale's adaptation of the Edna Ferber book/Kern-Hammerstein musical is considered the best of the three screen versions exploring the intertwining lives of a Mississippi showboat troupe. After leading couple Julie (Helen Morgan) and Steve (Donald Cook) are fired because of racism, the captain's daughter, Magnolia (Irene Dunne), gets her long-awaited chance to perform. When handsome drifter Gaylord Ravenal (Allan Jones) is cast opposite her, the two begin a roller-coaster ride of love and loss. Boasting lovely performances of songs like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," SHOW BOAT is a touching, tragic classic.

Credits
Writer:Oscar Hammerstein
Producer:Carl Laemmle Jr.
Cast:Sammy White

Notes
SHOW BOAT was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.

The film is based on the novel by Edna Ferber, which was published in 1926 and turned into a Broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in 1927.

There are three screen versions of the musical: the 1936 one; a Technicolor remake in 1951; and an early talkie version, made in 1929, which is now lost. The 1929 version starred Laura LaPlante and Joseph Schildkraut.

The cast for the original Broadway show, which was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, included Norma Terriss as Magnolia Hawks, Howard Marsh as Gaylord Ravenal, Edna May Oliver as Parthy, Eva Puck as Ellie Schultz and Jules Bledsoe as Joe. Those who reprised their stage roles in the screen version were Helen Morgan (Julie), Charles Winninger (Cap'n Andy) and Sammy White (Frank Schultz).

Three new songs were written for the film: "Gallivantin' Around," "I Have the Room Above Her," and "Ah Still Suits Me."

Editorial Reviews
"...This is the best of three screen versions..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (04/27/1990)

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