Show Boat (1929)
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
Director: Harry A. Pollard
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Laura La Plante as Magnolia |
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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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Jack McDonald as Windy |
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Jane La Verne as Magnolia as Child / Kim |
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Neely Edwards as Schultzy |
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Elise Bartlett as Elly |
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Stepin Fetchit as Joe |
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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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Matthew Beard as Child |
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George Chesebro as Steve Baker |
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Jim Coleman as Stagehand |
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Claude Collins as |
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Carl Herlinger as Wheelsman (uncredited) |
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Harry Holden as Means |
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Gertrude Howard as Queenie |
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Theodore Lorch as Frank |
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Ralph Yearsley as The Killer |
| Camera | Gilbert Warrenton | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Jack Foley | Foley Artist |
| Directing | Harry A. Pollard | Director |
| Writing | Oscar Hammerstein II | Lyricist |
| Sound | Jerome Kern | Songs |
| Art | Charles D. Hall | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Johanna Mathieson | Costume Design |
| Editing | Daniel Mandell | Editor |
| Writing | Edward J. Montaigne | Story Supervisor |
| Directing | Robert Ross | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Edna Ferber | Writer |
| Sound | Tom Reed | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Joseph Cherniavsky | Music |
| Sound | Harry A. Pollard | Dialogue Editor |
