Show Boat (1936) is a film based on the musical by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), which the team adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber.
This film version from Universal Pictures, which had in 1929 filmed a part-talkie version of Ferber's original novel, is, for the most part, a faithful adaptation of the famed Broadway musical version of the novel, and retains the interracial subplot so important to both the nov...
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Show Boat (1936) is a film based on the musical by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), which the team adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber.
This film version from Universal Pictures, which had in 1929 filmed a part-talkie version of Ferber's original novel, is, for the most part, a faithful adaptation of the famed Broadway musical version of the novel, and retains the interracial subplot so important to both the novel and the show. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with the 1929 film, and had long wanted to make an all-sound version of the hit musical. After plans to make this version with Russ Columbo as Ravenal fell through when Columbo was accidentally killed, shooting of the film was rescheduled, and the new version of Show Boat, with several members of the original Broadway cast, was released in 1936.
In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the...
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