Show Boat

Release Date:

Jul 13, 1951

Running Time:

1:47

Genre:

Musical

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Kathryn Grayson	Magnolia Hawks
Howard Keel	Gaylord Ravenal
Ava Gardner	Julie LaVerne
Joe E. Brown	Cap'n Andy Hawks
Gower Champion	Frank Schultz
Marge Champion	Ellie May Shipley
Robert Sterling	Stephen Baker
Agnes Moorehead	Parthy Hawks
Adele Jergens	Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
William Warfield	Joe
Leif Erickson	Pete
Owen McGiveney	Windy (uncredited)
Regis Toomey	Sheriff Ike Vallon (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox	Poker player (uncredited)
Chick Chandler	Joe (Trocadero stage assistant) (uncredited)
Emory Parnell	Jake Green (uncredited)
Ian MacDonald	Drunken sport (uncredited)
Fuzzy Knight	The Trocadero piano player (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt	The calliope player (uncredited)

Producers:

Arthur Freed

Writers:

Edna Ferber, John Lee Mahin

Language:

English

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When it comes to music on the Mississippi river, the Cotton Blossom show boat is the place to go. When musical main attraction Julie Laverne and her husband are suddenly forced to leave the show, Cotton Blossom owner Andy Hawks' own daughter, Magnolia, takes center stage. She soon falls madly in love with roguish gambler Gaylord Ravenal, and the two leave the Cotton Blossom on a honeymoon -- only to enter into a tumultuous marriage.

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