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Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later
Show Boat: Directed by Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath. With Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan. A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition.
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Year: 1929. Original title: Show Boat. Synopsis: The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy, enjoying her childhood aboard her father's show boat.
Magnolia's father, Captain Andy, is swept overboard in a storm, and Magnolia and Gaylord, harassed by Magnolia's strict, overbearing mother, sell their interest in the showboat to the widow and go to Chicago.
Overview. 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.
The Cotton Palace, a show boat, travels the Mississippi River in the late 1800's. Its owner is Captain Andy Hawks, who is married to the embittered, nagging Parthy. They have an eight year old daughter, Magnolia.
