Show Boat

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

• Harry A. PollardDirector
• Edna FerberWriter

• Laura La PlanteMagnolia
• Joseph SchildkrautGaylord Ravenal
• Emily FitzroyParthenia Ann Hawks
• Otis HarlanCapt. Andy Hawks
• Alma RubensJulie Dozier
• Jack McDonaldWindy
• Jane La VerneMagnolia as Child / Kim
• Neely EdwardsSchultzy
• Elise BartlettElly
• Stepin FetchitJoe
• Jules BledsoeJoe [prologue]
• Tess GardellaQueenie [prologue]