SHOW BOAT

Details

• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
• Plot: Come one, come allito theiShow Boat show!; ; From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol' Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin' along.; ; Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor® radiance, a made-from-scratch 170-foot paddle wheeler, timeless songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. ; ; 'This was music that would outlast Kern's day and mine,' Ferber said in recalling her first reaction to hearin Ol' Man River. She was right as rain.
• Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield, Boyd Ackerman, Bette Arlen, Mary Bezemes, Chick Chandler, Linda Christian, Sheila Clark, Frank Dae, Nova Dale, Roy Damron, Anne Dore, Michael Dugan, Marietta Elliott, Lisa Ferraday, George Ford, Robert Fortier, Mary Jane French, William Hall, Earle Hodgins, Shep Houghton, Tom Irish, Claude Jaeger, Joyce Jameson, Adele Jergens, Edward Keane, Helen Kimbell, Marilyn Kinsley, Fuzzy Knight, Judy Landon, John Phillip Law, Norman Leavitt, George Lynn, Ian MacDonald, Alice Markham, Alphonse Martell, Owen McGiveney, Louis Mercier, Anna Q. Nilsson, Emory Parnell, James Pierce, Bert Roach, Joseph Roach, Harry Seymour, William Tannen, Regis Toomey, Dee Turnell, Mitzie Uehlien, Frank Wilcox, Lyn Wilde, Frances E. Williams, Marjorie Wood, George Sidney, John Lee Mahin, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edna Ferber
• Director: George Sidney
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Movie