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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 the cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more about this classic film nominated for two Oscars.
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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...
Edna Ferber’s classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago.But none is more...
- 3 min
- 42.5K
- Warner Bros.
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.
A musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, directed by James Whale. Follow the journey of Magnolia, a show-business hopeful, from the South to the North, and the changing American culture and race relations.
