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Show Boat. 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 Showboat Drive-In Theater. Hockley, Texas ... In the past, the theater has hosted multi-film dusk-to-dawn movie events. There is also a children's playground and an extensive snack bar menu ...
Show Boat. (1951 film) 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. It was made by MGM, adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George ...
Show Boat. Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era ...
Maxwell House Show Boat. Charles Winninger as Captain Henry in 1937. Maxwell House Show Boat was the top radio show in the United States from 1933 to 1935. [1] The program was sponsored by Maxwell House coffee, and it aired on NBC Radio Thursday nights, 9 pm. The first show was broadcast on Thursday, June 15, 1933. [2][3]
Showboat. The showboat Majestic was pushed by Attaboy, its towboat or pusher. A showboat, or show boat, was a floating theater that traveled along the waterways of the United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, to bring culture and entertainment to the river frontiers. [1] This special type of riverboat was designed to ...
Show Boat. (1936 film) Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. [2] Universal Pictures had filmed the part-talkie Show Boat which was released in 1929.
Showboat, Inc. Showboat, Inc., a United States-based organization in the casino and entertainment industry, [1] made its initial public offering in 1969. [2] Later that year, Ramada Inns agreed to buy the company for $15 million in stock, [3] but negotiations failed because of conditions set by Houssels, who wanted cash for his 24% stake.