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Show Boat (1936)

1936 film by James Whale

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Genre musical

Country United States

Runtime 115 min

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Based on

Show Boat by Edna Ferber (1926) · literary work
Book: Public domain in the US — free on Project Gutenberg
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Film: not public domain (1936) — see where to watch it below

Cast & crew

Directed by James Whale

Written by Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein II, Zoë Akins

Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.

Music by Jerome Kern

Cinematography John J. Mescall

Edited by Bernard W. Burton

Cast (33)

Hattie McDaniel · Paul Robeson · Irene Dunne · Allan Jones · Grace Cunard · Helen Morgan · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Jack Mulhall · Donald Cook · Tiny Sandford · J. Farrell MacDonald · Charles Middleton · Charles Winninger · Arthur Hohl · Helen Westley · Queenie Smith · Al Ferguson · Marilyn Knowlden · Forrest Stanley · Barbara Pepper · Edward Peil · Stanley Fields · Clarence Muse · Edmund Cobb · Tom Ricketts · Selmer Jackson · Charles C. Wilson · Brooks Benedict · Eddy Chandler · Sammy White · LeRoy Prinz · May Beatty · Betty Brown

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Series, universe & remakes

Studio: Universal Pictures

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