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Show Boat

HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:

1936 · NR · 1h 53m

Directed by James Whale

6.7

TMDB audience score
51 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Sheltered beauty Magnolia Hawkes takes over as the leading lady on a Mississippi riverboat show when mixed-race Julie and her white husband are forced out of town by a prejudiced sheriff. Charismatic opportunist Gaylord Ravenal wins Magnolia's heart, but his gambling losses threaten to ruin their chances for a happy marriage.

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Cast

  • Irene Dunne
    Magnolia Hawkes

  • Allan Jones
    Gaylord Ravenal

  • Charles Winninger
    Cap'n Andy Hawkes

  • Paul Robeson
    Joe

  • Helen Morgan
    Julie LaVerne

  • Helen Westley
    Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes

  • Queenie Smith
    Ellie May Chipley

  • Sammy White
    Frank Schultz

  • Donald Cook
    Steve Baker

  • Hattie McDaniel
    Queenie

  • Francis X. Mahoney
    Rubber Face

  • Marilyn Knowlden
    Kim as a Child

  • Sunnie O'Dea
    Kim - at Sixteen

  • Arthur Hohl
    Pete

  • Charles Middleton
    Sheriff Ike Vallon

  • Clarence Muse
    Sam

  • E. E. Clive
    Sir Arthur

  • Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
    Boonville man speaking film's first line