Show Boat
Show Boat
Release: 1929-07-27
·Runtime: 146m
·★ 5.7
Drama
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
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Cast
George Chesebro
as Steve Baker
Alma Rubens
as Julie Dozier
Neely Edwards
as Schultzy
Helen Morgan
as Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Matthew Beard
as Child
Theodore Lorch
as Frank
Joseph Schildkraut
as Gaylord Ravenal
Jack McDonald
as Windy
Jules Bledsoe
as Joe [prologue]
Ralph Yearsley
as The Killer
Laura La Plante
as Magnolia
Emily Fitzroy
as Parthenia Ann Hawks
Stepin Fetchit
as Joe
Carl Laemmle
as Himself [prologue]
Max Asher
as Utility Man
Gertrude Howard
as Queenie
Otis Harlan
as Capt. Andy Hawks
