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Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs.
Show Boat: Directed by Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath. With Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan. A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath
- 1929-07-28
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- 106 min
- 27K
- The Sweetest Sounds
Magnolia's father, Captain Andy, is swept overboard in a storm, and Magnolia and Gaylord, harassed by Magnolia's strict, overbearing mother, sell their interest in the showboat to the widow and go to Chicago.
- Harry Pollard, Arch Heath, Robert Ross
- Helen Morgan
Show Boat is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs.
- Arch Heath, Harry A. Pollard
Overview. This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married.
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Dec 18, 1989 · Dec 18, 1989. W hen Edna Ferber’s novel, Show Boat, was published in August 1926, little could she imagine that her story would become the basis for a 1927 Broadway musical play that would alter the entire course of musical theatre. The adaptation by composer Jerome Kern and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II broke fresh ground in countless ways.
