Show Boat (1929)

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 1929 American romantic drama film based on the 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 added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as o

Overview of Show Boat, 1929, directed by Harry Pollard, with Otis Harlan, Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe, at Turner Classic Movies

Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes (Laura La Plante), daughter of Captain Andy of the Cotton Blossom, a 19th century show boat. Magnolia's head is turned by handsome gambler Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut), who woos and weds her. He turns out to be a poor husband and provider, eventually deserting Magnolia and her daughter. But Magnolia, harking upon her performing experiences while on her father's show boat, becomes a successful stage star and raises her daughter all by herself. Though filmed just two years after the Broadway debut of the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. musical Show Boat, this film is more closely based on the source novel than the stage play. While the immortal

Movie Still Photographs, Credits and Plot Synopsis for the silent film "Show Boat," made in 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

The 1929 Show Boat is really much better than various historians have pronounced; it is a nicely-wrought document of human emotions and human conflict, with forceful and memorable uses of montage and a particularly good performance from Laura La Plante. If you are expecting that

Show Boat is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. It is not, as has been often claimed, based on the Kern-Hammerstein stage musical, although the film does have songs. This version was released by Universal in two editions, one a silent film for movie...

Media for the 1929 United States film Show Boat.

Show Boat is a 1929 American romantic drama film based on the novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber It is not as has been often claimed based on the KernHammerst