SHOW BOAT (MOVIE) - BLU-1936-IRENE DUNN-CRITERION COLLECTION

Details

• Release Year: 1936
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
• Plot: Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s immortal musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s sprawling novel receives its most faithful and enduring cinematic treatment under the elegant direction of James Whale. A rich portrait of changing American entertainment traditions and race relations, Show Boat spans five decades and three generations as it follows the fortunes of the stagestruck Magnolia (Irene Dunne), an aspiring actor whose journey takes her from her family’s humble floating playhouse in the 1880s South to the bright footlights of the 1930s North. The cast of show-business legends includes Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel, Charles Winninger, and the great Paul Robeson, whose iconic, soul-shaking rendition of “Ol’ Man River” is one of the crowning glories of the American stage and screen.
• Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Sammy White, Donald Cook, Hattie McDaniel, Francis X. Mahoney, Marilyn Knowlden, Sunnie O'Dea, Arthur Hohl, Charles Middleton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Clarence Muse, Maude Allen, Ricca Allen, William Alston, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Barris, Patricia Barry, May Beatty, Brooks Benedict, Barbara Bletcher, Mary Bovard, Donald Briggs, Betty Brown, Daisy Bufford, James P. Burtis, Eddy Chandler, E.E. Clive, Edmund Cobb, Maxine Cook, Grace Cunard, J. Gunnis Davis, Anna Demetrio, Helen Dickson, Jeanette Dickson, Elspeth Dudgeon, Helen Jerome Eddy, Kathleen Ellis, Al Ferguson, Stanley Fields, Flora Finch, Artye Folz, Ruth Givens, June Glory, Dorothy Granger, Marilyn Harris, Helen Hayward, Ernest Hilliard, Arthur Housman, Jimmy Jackson, Selmer Jackson, Matthew Jones, Jane Keckley, Isabel La Mal, Jack Latham, Frank Mayo, Martha Merrill, Monte Montague, Juanita Moore, Jack Mulhall, Harold Nelson, Georgia O'Dell, Dennis O'Keefe, Patti Patterson, Edward Peil Sr., Barbara Pepper, Lee Phelps, LeRoy Prinz, George Reed, Tom Ricketts, Donna Mae Roberts, Louise Robinson, Betty Roche, Alma Ross, Tiny Sandford, Forrest Stanley, Mary Stewart, Nubar Terziyan, Frances Turham, Maidel Turner, Lois Verner, Harold Waldridge, Marguerite Warner, Billy Watson, Bobs Watson, Delmar Watson, Harry Watson, Lloyd Whitlock, Renee Whitney, Frank Whitson, Charles C. Wilson, James Whale, Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein II, Zoe Akins
• Director: James Whale
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie