Film

Show Boat

Release year

1929

Synopsis

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

Directed by

Harry A. Pollard

Cast

Laura La Plante
Joseph Schildkraut
Emily Fitzroy
Otis Harlan
Alma Rubens
Jack McDonald

Poster artist

Eric Rohman