Show Boat
(1929)

Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!

Released: 1929-07-27

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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

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Joseph Schildkraut

as Gaylord Ravenal

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Emily Fitzroy

as Parthenia Ann Hawks

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Otis Harlan

as Capt. Andy Hawks

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Alma Rubens

as Julie Dozier

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Jane La Verne

as Magnolia as Child / Kim

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Jules Bledsoe

as Joe [prologue]

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Tess Gardella

as Queenie [prologue]

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Carl Laemmle

as Himself [prologue]

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Helen Morgan

as Julie LaVerne [prologue]

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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

as Himself [prologue]

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Max Asher

as Utility Man

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