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Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Show Boat is a 1951 American musical romantic drama film, based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), and the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber.
A romantic drama set on a riverboat in the American South, featuring songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more for this classic film starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- George Sidney
- 1951-09-24
It's an Oscar-nominated musical look at the lives and loves of a show boat theater troupe aboard an old-fashioned Mississippi riverboat. Featuring all-American classic songs by Oscar...
Find out who starred in the 1951 musical film adaptation of Show Boat, based on the play and novel by Edna Ferber. See the names and roles of the actors, directors, producers, writers, and more.
The prominence and then disappearance of African-inspired dance in the show traces one strand in the long history of Show Boat productions working to revise racial stereotypes in a bid to keep the show stageworthy.
Show Boat is a 1927 musical based on Edna Ferber's novel, featuring songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. It tells the story of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi, in Chicago and on Broadway.
