Show Boat

Based On the book by Edna Ferber

Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. Universal Pictures had filmed the part-talkie Show Boat which was released in 1929. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with that film, and wanted to make an all-sound version of the musical. It was originally scheduled to be made in 1934, but plans to make this version with Russ Columbo as the gambler Gaylord Ravenal fell through when Columbo was killed that year in a shotgun accident, and production of the film was rescheduled.

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Release date:

1936

Director:

James Whale

Cast:

Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Hattie McDaniel

Genre:

Musical

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1936 in adaptations