Show Boat

Queenie Smith as Ellie May Chipley Helen Jerome Eddy Charles Winninger as Cap'n Andy Hawkes Mary Bovard Helen Morgan as Julie LaVerne Charles Middleton as Sheriff Ike Vallon Clarence Muse as Sam Edmund Cobb Flora Finch Dorothy Granger Bobs Watson Sunnie O'Dea as Kim - at Sixteen Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Boonville man speaking film's first line Grace Cunard Selmer Jackson Isabel La Mal Tom Ricketts Paul Robeson as Joe D'Arcy Corrigan Juanita Moore Arthur Hohl as Pete Sammy White as Frank Schultz Harry Barris Arthur Housman Jane Keckley Neşet Berküren Ricca Allen Ernest Hilliard Forrest Stanley Lloyd Whitlock Orhon Murat Arıburnu Donald Briggs Betty Brown Renee Whitney Irene Dunne as Magnolia Hawkes Monte Montague Delmar Watson J. Farrell MacDonald as Windy MacLaine Eddy Chandler Marilyn Harris Frank Mayo Donald Cook as Steve Baker Hattie McDaniel as Queenie Brooks Benedict Edward Peil Sr. Tiny Sandford as Zebe (uncredited) E. E. Clive as Sir Arthur, May Beatty Stanley Fields Lee Phelps Anna Demetrio Jack Mulhall Barbara Pepper Harold Waldridge Frank Whitson Allan Jones as Gaylord Ravenal Al Ferguson Dennis O'Keefe Maidel Turner Charles C. Wilson Helen Westley as Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes Marilyn Knowlden as Kim as a Child James P. Burtis Elspeth Dudgeon George H. Reed Mary Stewart

James Whale Director Doris Zinkeisen Costume Design Edna Ferber Novel Jerome Kern Songs, Music, Theatre Play, Original Music Composer Carl Laemmle Jr. Producer Jack Pierce Makeup Artist