Show Boat
Drama
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
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. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
1929-07-27
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Cast
Director
Harry A. Pollard
Laura La Plante as Magnolia
Joseph Schildkraut as Gaylord Ravenal
Emily Fitzroy as Parthenia Ann Hawks
Otis Harlan as Capt. Andy Hawks
Alma Rubens as Julie Dozier
Jack McDonald as Windy
Neely Edwards as Schultzy
Stepin Fetchit as Joe
Jules Bledsoe as Joe [prologue]
Carl Laemmle as Himself [prologue]
Helen Morgan as Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Max Asher as Utility Man
Matthew Beard as Child
George Chesebro as Steve Baker
Gertrude Howard as Queenie
Theodore Lorch as Frank
Ralph Yearsley as The Killer