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Show Boat

Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!

NR Drama

Starring: Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens

Writer: Oscar Hammerstein II, Edna Ferber, Edward J. Montaigne

Release Date:
July 27, 1929
Ratings:
5.7 / 10
Director:
Harry A. Pollard
Companies:
Universal Pictures

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. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel