Show Boat (1929)
July 27, 1929Release Date
Show Boat (1929)
July 27, 1929Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Laura La Plante
Magnolia

Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal

Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks

Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks

Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier

Jack McDonald
Windy

Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim

Neely Edwards
Schultzy

Elise Bartlett
Elly

Stepin Fetchit
Joe

Jules Bledsoe
Joe [prologue]

Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]

Carl Laemmle
Himself [prologue]

Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]

Max Asher
Utility Man

Matthew Beard
Child

George Chesebro
Steve Baker

Jim Coleman
Stagehand

Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)

Harry Holden
Means

Gertrude Howard
Queenie

Theodore Lorch
Frank

Ralph Yearsley
The Killer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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 added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs. Many of these songs from the stage show were featured in a special prologue that was added to the picture before it was released. This film was produced and released by Universal. Like the majority of films during the early sound era, a silent version was made for movie theatres that had not yet converted to sound.
The film was long believed to be lost, but most of it has been found and released on LaserDisc and shown on Turner Classic Movies. Like most early sound films the film was released in both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film versions. A number of Vitaphone type records for the sound-on-disc version were located in the mid-1990s. The soundtrack for the film was originally recorded using the sound-on-film Western Electric process and transferred to the disc format for those theatres that did not have the capability of playing the sound-on-film format. Two more soundtrack records were discovered in 2005.
As a film first published in 1929, it entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
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