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Show Boat at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films; Showboat Film page, Reel Classics - photos, sound clips; Show Boat at IMDb; Show Boat at the TCM Movie Database; Show Boat on Lux Radio Theater: June 24, 1940. Starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, and Charles Winninger. Show Boat: Rollin’ on the River an essay by Gary Giddins at the Criterion ...
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.
Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as a source, but scenes were later added into the film incorporating two of the songs from the musical as well as other songs.
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.
The film includes two versions of "Ol' Man River": the first sung by Caleb Peterson and an African-American chorus as part of the Show Boat medley, and the second, a "crooner version" by Frank Sinatra, featured as the grand finale. Barbette consulted on the creation of the film's circus sequence. [6]
Lena Horne as Julie Laverne singing the song in a mini-production of Show Boat in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern.. The song, written in a blues tempo, is sung in the show by several characters, but is most closely associated with the character Julie, the biracial leading lady of the showboat Cotton Blossom.
The time is the 1890s. Captain Sam, owner of the showboat River Queen, travels along the Mississippi River bringing honest entertainment to each town. At a stop in Ironville, he meets Crawford, Bonita, and Bailey, who are wanted by the local sheriff.
Robert Merrill & Patrice Munsel for the RCA album Show Boat (1956) [7] Roger Whittaker for the album A Perfect Day: His Greatest Hits and More (1996) [8] Steve Lawrence for the album The Steve Lawrence Sound (1960) [9] Tony Bennett for the album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (2015) Tony Martin recorded on December 21, 1946 for ...