Directed by:
James WhaleScreenplay:
Edna FerberCinematography:
John J. MescallComposer:
Jerome KernCast:
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Sammy White, Donald Cook, Hattie McDaniel, Arthur Hohl (more)Plots(1)
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Showboat, based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel, is a seminal American musical, the first to explore serious themes (most notably racism) and to truly integrate song with story and character. The plot follows three generations of a theatrical Mississippi riverboat family from the 1880s to the 1920s. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Charles C. Wilson
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Selmer Jackson
USA
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Jack Mulhall
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
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Maidel Turner
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Love Is News (1937)
Show Boat (1936)
Brooks Benedict
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Barbara Pepper
USA
Best movies:
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Al Ferguson
Ireland
Best movies:
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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East of Eden (1955)
Monte Montague
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Show Boat (1936)
Virginia City (1940)
Ernest Hilliard
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Gilda (1946)
Random Harvest (1942)
Edward Peil Sr.
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Storm Warning (1951)
Stanley Fields
USA
Best movies:
Show Boat (1936)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Way Out West (1937)
Donald Briggs
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Show Boat (1936)
Eddy Chandler
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
E.E. Clive
UK
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Dorothy Granger
USA
Best movies:
Westward the Women (1951)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Show Boat (1936)
Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Helen Jerome Eddy
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Arthur Housman
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Feet First (1930)
Tom Ricketts
UK
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
George Reed
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Show Boat (1936)