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Show Boat is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harry A. Pollard released in USA on 27 july 1929 with Laura La Plante

Show Boat (1929)

Show Boat
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Released in USA 27 july 1929
Length 2h9
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical,    Romance
Rating60% 3.0486953.0486953.0486953.0486953.048695

Show Boat is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. It is not, as has been often claimed, based on the Kern-Hammerstein stage musical, although the film does have songs. This version was released by Universal in two editions, one a silent film for movie theatres still not equipped for sound, and one a part-talkie with a sound prologue.

The film was long believed to be lost, but most of it has been found and released on laserdisc and shown on Turner Classic Movies. A number of sections of the soundtrack were found in the mid-1990s on Vitaphone records, although the film was made with a Movietone soundtrack. Two more records were discovered in 2005.

Synopsis

The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal.

Actors

Laura La Plante

(Magnolia)Joseph Schildkraut

(Gaylord Ravenal)Emily Fitzroy

(Parthenia Ann Hawks)Otis Harlan

(Capt. Andy Hawks)Stepin Fetchit

(Joe)
And :
Alma Rubens
Neely Edwards
Carl Laemmle
Jack McDonald
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