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
Joseph Schildkraut
as Gaylord Ravenal
Alma Rubens
as Julie Dozier
Jack McDonald
as Windy
Neely Edwards
as Schultzy
Jules Bledsoe
as Joe [prologue]
Max Asher
as Utility Man
Matthew Beard
as Child
Laura La Plante
as Magnolia
Emily Fitzroy
as Parthenia Ann Hawks
Gertrude Howard
as Queenie
Theodore Lorch
as Frank
Carl Laemmle
as Himself [prologue]
Ralph Yearsley
as The Killer
Otis Harlan
as Capt. Andy Hawks
Stepin Fetchit
as Joe
Helen Morgan
as Julie LaVerne [prologue]
George Chesebro
as Steve Baker
