Show Boat
27/07/1929
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
Movie Information
Laura La Plante
as Magnolia
Joseph Schildkraut
as Gaylord Ravenal
Emily Fitzroy
as Parthenia Ann Hawks
Otis Harlan
as Capt. Andy Hawks
Alma Rubens
as Julie Dozier
Jack McDonald
as Windy
Jane La Verne
as Magnolia as Child / Kim
Neely Edwards
as Schultzy
Elise Bartlett
as Elly
Stepin Fetchit
as Joe
Jules Bledsoe
as Joe [prologue]
Tess Gardella
as Queenie [prologue]
Carl Laemmle
as Himself [prologue]
Helen Morgan
as Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
as Himself [prologue]
Max Asher
as Utility Man
Matthew Beard
as Child
George Chesebro
as Steve Baker
Jim Coleman
as Stagehand
Claude Collins
as
Carl Herlinger
as Wheelsman (uncredited)
Harry Holden
as Means
Gertrude Howard
as Queenie
Theodore Lorch
as Frank
Ralph Yearsley
as The Killer
