![Show Boat](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original//544o6KJUyQslVuVI0IH1qTBrXph.jpg)
![Show Boat](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//psMrD853qs9CGITFjFlr5eoycXT.jpg)
Show Boat
2 hours 26 minutes1929-07-27
5.0
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This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Cast
![Laura La Plante](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//oiathkwBPkrBNX5jdwiE4GQlVDn.jpg)
Laura La Plante
Magnolia
![Joseph Schildkraut](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//vhcQACFWxEt1HttbGcgB7vcBYLS.jpg)
Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal
![Emily Fitzroy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//4V6A5auvNlrXcVPFdua8MfiC2ms.jpg)
Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks
![Otis Harlan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//52f8iXnnQW8iCsO5HzEBtUGHz5X.jpg)
Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks
![Alma Rubens](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//5E4uO4iO6cw0FsOL2oUcytqM1XN.jpg)
Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier
![Jack McDonald](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ugI4hSBdSZk7m7H8ij60dDWVW2K.jpg)
Jack McDonald
Windy
![Jane La Verne](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
![Neely Edwards](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//osKsh0OqKChZkrLFy1BOmGv764m.jpg)
Neely Edwards
Schultzy
![Elise Bartlett](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Elise Bartlett
Elly
![Stepin Fetchit](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//dc4SOTvQahtWdciBadPqqSUAqvy.jpg)
Stepin Fetchit
Joe
![Jules Bledsoe](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//sA5jbdlMPSb82BqYmEJZVRLKidU.jpg)
Jules Bledsoe
Joe [prologue]
![Tess Gardella](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
![Carl Laemmle](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//4UBMh6AJxS5gUJVlkIgswDc3rlJ.jpg)
Carl Laemmle
Himself [prologue]
![Helen Morgan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//psrgNK6RsqAUGDdcZX7NXJX6eKs.jpg)
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]
![Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]
![Max Asher](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//kjX0PQ1C4tp0sVeqLjux9OMUQxK.jpg)
Max Asher
Utility Man
![Matthew Beard](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//dA6jPwg14ejJI68wGcibC7To1Il.jpg)
Matthew Beard
Child
![George Chesebro](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//s8A5WerpnAjIom4ezjiTEcDEOc4.jpg)
George Chesebro
Steve Baker
![Jim Coleman](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jim Coleman
Stagehand
![Claude Collins](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Claude Collins
![Carl Herlinger](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)
![Harry Holden](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Harry Holden
Means
![Gertrude Howard](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//d24mSO6rQNdoEDME0FGCF2E8PnS.jpg)
Gertrude Howard
Queenie
![Theodore Lorch](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//yKsFtQczv5UMDpbPJtGa7qWONGy.jpg)
Theodore Lorch
Frank
![Ralph Yearsley](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)