Show Boat
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
146 mins
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
Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
Elise Bartlett
Elly
Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]
Jim Coleman
Stagehand
Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)
Harry Holden
Means
Ralph Yearsley
The Killer
Gilbert Warrenton
Director of Photography
Jack Foley
Foley Artist
Edward J. Montaigne
Story Supervisor
Tom Reed
Dialogue Editor
Joseph Cherniavsky
Music
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
Johanna Mathieson
Costume Design
Robert Ross
Assistant Director