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Show Boat

"HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:"

1936

1h 53m

6.8(47 votes)

Music

Romance

Drama

Comedy

Overview

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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96 members

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Irene Dunne

Magnolia Hawkes

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Allan Jones

Gaylord Ravenal

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Charles Winninger

Cap'n Andy Hawkes

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Paul Robeson

Joe

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Helen Morgan

Julie LaVerne

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Helen Westley

Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes

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Queenie Smith

Ellie May Chipley

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Sammy White

Frank Schultz

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Donald Cook

Steve Baker

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Hattie McDaniel

Queenie

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Francis X. Mahoney

Rubber Face

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Marilyn Knowlden

Kim as a Child

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Sunnie O'Dea

Kim - at Sixteen

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Arthur Hohl

Pete

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Charles Middleton

Sheriff Ike Vallon

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Clarence Muse

Sam

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E. E. Clive

Sir Arthur

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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Boonville man speaking film's first line

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J. Farrell MacDonald

Windy MacLaine

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Maude Allen

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Ricca Allen

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William Alston

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Harry Barris

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May Beatty

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Brooks Benedict

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Barbara Bletcher

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Mary Bovard

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Donald Briggs

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Betty Brown

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Daisy Bufford

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Ann Bupp

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James P. Burtis

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Eddy Chandler

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E. E. Clive

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Edmund Cobb

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Maxine Cook

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D'Arcy Corrigan

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Grace Cunard

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J. Gunnis Davis

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Anna Demetrio

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Helen Dickson

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Jeanette Dickson

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Elspeth Dudgeon

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Helen Jerome Eddy

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Kathleen Ellis

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Al Ferguson

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Stanley Fields

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Flora Finch

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Artye Folz

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June Glory

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Dorothy Granger

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Marilyn Harris

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Helen Hayward

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Ernest Hilliard

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Arthur Housman

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Selmer Jackson

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Matthew Jones

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Jane Keckley

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Isabel La Mal

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Jack Latham

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Frank Mayo

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Martha Merrill

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Monte Montague

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Juanita Moore

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Jack Mulhall

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Harold Nelson

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Georgia O'Dell

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Dennis O'Keefe

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Edward Peil Sr.

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Barbara Pepper

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Lee Phelps

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LeRoy Prinz

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George H. Reed

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Tom Ricketts

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Donna Mae Roberts

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Louise Robinson

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Betty Roche

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Alma Ross

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Tiny Sandford

Zebe (uncredited)

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Forrest Stanley

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Mary Stewart

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Frances Turham

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Maidel Turner

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Lois Verner

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Harold Waldridge

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Marguerite Warner

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Billy Watson

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Bobs Watson

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Delmar Watson

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Harry Watson

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Lloyd Whitlock

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Renee Whitney

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Frank Whitson

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Charles C. Wilson

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Neşet Berküren

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Orhon M. Arıburnu

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