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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1936 film by James Whale</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and 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href="/wiki/File:Show_Boat_(1936_film_poster).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg/220px-Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="572" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg/330px-Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg/440px-Show_Boat_%281936_film_poster%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1129" data-file-height="2937" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Whale" title="James Whale">James Whale</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a> (also wrote lyrics)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(novel)" title="Show Boat (novel)">Show Boat</a></i><br />1926 novel<br />by <a href="/wiki/Edna_Ferber" title="Edna Ferber">Edna Ferber</a><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat" title="Show Boat">Show Boat</a></i><br />1927 musical<br />by <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Kern" title="Jerome Kern">Jerome Kern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Laemmle_Jr." title="Carl Laemmle Jr.">Carl Laemmle Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Irene_Dunne" title="Irene Dunne">Irene Dunne</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Allan_Jones_(actor)" title="Allan Jones (actor)">Allan Jones</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Winninger" title="Charles Winninger">Charles Winninger</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Helen_Morgan_(singer)" title="Helen Morgan (singer)">Helen Morgan</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Helen_Westley" title="Helen Westley">Helen Westley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_J._Mescall" title="John J. Mescall">John J. Mescall</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bernard_W._Burton" title="Bernard W. Burton">Bernard W. Burton</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ted_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Ted Kent">Ted Kent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Kern" title="Jerome Kern">Jerome Kern</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Color process</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Black_and_white" class="mw-redirect" title="Black and white">Black and white</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;">Universal Pictures</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release dates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>May 14, 1936<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1936-05-14</span>)</span> (New York City)</li> <li>May 17, 1936<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1936-05-17</span>)</span> (United States)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">113 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$1,194,943<sup id="cite_ref-dick_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dick-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Show Boat</b></i> is a 1936 American <a href="/wiki/Romantic_musical_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Romantic musical film">romantic musical film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/James_Whale" title="James Whale">James Whale</a>, based on the 1927 <a href="/wiki/Show_Boat" title="Show Boat">musical of the same name</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Kern" title="Jerome Kern">Jerome Kern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a>, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 <a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(novel)" title="Show Boat (novel)">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/wiki/Edna_Ferber" title="Edna Ferber">Edna Ferber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> had filmed the <a href="/wiki/Part-talkie" title="Part-talkie">part-talkie</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(1929_film)" title="Show Boat (1929 film)">Show Boat</a></i> which was released in 1929. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Laemmle" title="Carl Laemmle">Carl Laemmle</a>, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with that film, and wanted to make an all-sound version of the musical. It was originally scheduled to be made in 1934, but plans to make this version with <a href="/wiki/Russ_Columbo" title="Russ Columbo">Russ Columbo</a> as the gambler Gaylord Ravenal fell through when Columbo was killed that year in a shotgun accident, and production of the film was rescheduled. The film, with several members of the original Broadway cast, began principal photography in late 1935 and was released in 1936. </p><p>In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the film. Two of them were performed in spots previously reserved for songs from the stage production. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The musical's story spans about 40 years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks (<a href="/wiki/Irene_Dunne" title="Irene Dunne">Irene Dunne</a>) is an 18-year-old on her family's <a href="/wiki/Showboat" title="Showboat">show boat</a>, the <i>Cotton Palace</i>, which travels the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal (<a href="/wiki/Allan_Jones_(actor)" title="Allan Jones (actor)">Allan Jones</a>), a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about 10 years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (<a href="/wiki/Helen_Morgan_(singer)" title="Helen Morgan (singer)">Helen Morgan</a>) (the show boat's leading actress, who is part black, but <a href="/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity)#Passing_for_white" title="Passing (racial identity)">passing as white</a>) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (<a href="/wiki/Donald_Cook_(actor)" title="Donald Cook (actor)">Donald Cook</a>) (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic">alcoholic</a>. Magnolia becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later, Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg/250px-Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg/375px-Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg/500px-Irene_Dunne-John_Mescall_in_Show_Boat.jpg 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption>Irene Dunne and John J. Mescall (cinematographer) on the set of <i>Show Boat</i> (1936) - publicity still</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irene_Dunne" title="Irene Dunne">Irene Dunne</a> as Magnolia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allan_Jones_(actor)" title="Allan Jones (actor)">Allan Jones</a> as Gaylord Ravenal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Winninger" title="Charles Winninger">Charles Winninger</a> as Cap'n Andy Hawks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a> as Joe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Morgan_(singer)" title="Helen Morgan (singer)">Helen Morgan</a> as Julie</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Westley" title="Helen Westley">Helen Westley</a> as Parthy Ann Hawks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queenie_Smith" title="Queenie Smith">Queenie Smith</a> as Ellie May Chipley</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_White_(actor)" title="Sammy White (actor)">Sammy White</a> as Frank Schultz</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Cook_(actor)" title="Donald Cook (actor)">Donald Cook</a> as Steve Baker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel" title="Hattie McDaniel">Hattie McDaniel</a> as Queenie</li> <li>Francis X. Mahoney as Rubber Face Smith</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Knowlden" title="Marilyn Knowlden">Marilyn Knowlden</a> as Kim (as a Child)</li> <li>Sunnie O'Dea as Kim (at Sixteen)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hohl" title="Arthur Hohl">Arthur Hohl</a> as Pete</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_B._Middleton" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles B. Middleton">Charles B. Middleton</a> as Vallon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Farrell_MacDonald" title="J. Farrell MacDonald">J. Farrell MacDonald</a> as Windy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Muse" title="Clarence Muse">Clarence Muse</a> as Janitor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_C._Wilson_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles C. Wilson (actor)">Charles C. Wilson</a> as Jim Green (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Gunnis_Davis" title="J. Gunnis Davis">J. Gunnis Davis</a> as Doctor (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_%22Rochester%22_Anderson" title="Eddie "Rochester" Anderson">Eddie "Rochester" Anderson</a> as Young Black Man (uncredited)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production_history">Production history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Show_Boat_(1936_film)" title="Special:EditPage/Show Boat (1936 film)">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This film version of <i>Show Boat</i> stars <a href="/wiki/Irene_Dunne" title="Irene Dunne">Irene Dunne</a> as Magnolia and <a href="/wiki/Allan_Jones_(actor)" title="Allan Jones (actor)">Allan Jones</a> as Ravenal, with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Winninger" title="Charles Winninger">Charles Winninger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Morgan_(singer)" title="Helen Morgan (singer)">Helen Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Westley" title="Helen Westley">Helen Westley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queenie_Smith" title="Queenie Smith">Queenie Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sammy_White_(actor)" title="Sammy White (actor)">Sammy White</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Cook_(actor)" title="Donald Cook (actor)">Donald Cook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel" title="Hattie McDaniel">Hattie McDaniel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Middleton_(actor)" title="Charles Middleton (actor)">Charles Middleton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hohl" title="Arthur Hohl">Arthur Hohl</a>. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/James_Whale" title="James Whale">James Whale</a>, who tried to bring as many people from the stage production as he could to work on the film. (<a href="/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld" class="mw-redirect" title="Florenz Ziegfeld">Florenz Ziegfeld</a>, who died in 1932, had originally produced <i>Show Boat</i> onstage.) Winninger, Morgan and White had all previously played their roles in both the original 1927 stage production and the 1932 stage revival of the musical. Robeson, for whom the role of Joe was actually written, had appeared in the show onstage in London in 1928 and in the Broadway revival of 1932. Dunne had been brought in to replace <a href="/wiki/Norma_Terris" title="Norma Terris">Norma Terris</a>, the original Magnolia, in the touring version of the show, and had toured the U.S. in the role beginning in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-nytdunne_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytdunne-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Francis X. Mahoney, who played the brief role of the comic stagehand "Rubber Face" Smith, had also starred in the original production and in the 1932 Broadway revival, and would repeat his role in the 1946 Broadway revival of <i>Show Boat</i>, two years before his death. </p><p>This film also enlisted the services of the show's original orchestrator, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Russell_Bennett" title="Robert Russell Bennett">Robert Russell Bennett</a>, and its original conductor, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Baravalle" title="Victor Baravalle">Victor Baravalle</a>, as the film's musical director and conductor. The screenplay for the film was written by Hammerstein. </p><p>The songs were performed in a manner very similar to the original stage version, not counting the three new songs written for the film. Many of the show's original vocal arrangements (by an uncredited <a href="/wiki/Will_Vodery" title="Will Vodery">Will Vodery</a>) were retained in the film. "Why Do I Love You?" had been filmed in a new setting—inside a running open-top automobile—but was cut just before the film's release to tighten the running time.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It is featured in all stage presentations of <i>Show Boat</i>, and if performed in its entirety is a long song, running six minutes and forty seconds. There is no word on whether or not the film footage has survived.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> interview with Dunne, her rendition during the car ride was too jerky and her recording on a separate sound track too smooth, and the song was dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-nytdunne_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytdunne-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A hint of it, though, remains underneath the dialog.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The music of the song is heard in the automobile sequence, in an earlier hotel lobby scene, and in the scene in which Magnolia receives Ravenal's farewell letter. </p><p>Due to time constraints, Whale was forced to delete much of his ending sequence, including a "modern" dance number to contrast with the romantic, "Old South" production number featuring Kim, and which was intended to highlight black American contributions to dance and music. In order to condense many years' time into the final reel of the film, a number of montages were employed, and up-tempo and down-tempo excerpts of "Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", arranged by Robert Russell Bennett, were used in place of dialog, or under incidental dialog. There was also to have been an additional reprise of "Ol' Man River", sung by Paul Robeson in old-age makeup as Joe, but this was deleted, and we never do see an aged Joe (or Queenie) in the film as released. </p><p>According to film historian <a href="/wiki/Miles_Kreuger" title="Miles Kreuger">Miles Kreuger</a> in his book <i>Show Boat: The History of a Classic American Musical</i>, great care was taken by director James Whale to ensure a feeling of complete authenticity in the set and costume design for this film. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Frank_S._Nugent" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank S. Nugent">Frank S. Nugent</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> called it "one of the finest musical films we have seen".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i> in 1936, <a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a> gave the film a mildly positive review, characterizing the direction as "fine moneyed smoothness", and describing the film as "good entertainment, sentimental, literary, but oddly appealing". Greene also commented that the film had seen criticism from other viewers that the ending had suffered from "the extreme sentimentality and improbability of [the final] reunion".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was the 8th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Temporary_withdrawal_from_circulation">Temporary withdrawal from circulation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Temporary withdrawal from circulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the film was critically acclaimed and successful at the box office, it was withdrawn from circulation in the 1940s, after <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a>, which wanted to remake the film, bought the rights (and all prints) from Universal. MGM originally wanted to star <a href="/wiki/Jeanette_MacDonald" title="Jeanette MacDonald">Jeanette MacDonald</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Eddy" title="Nelson Eddy">Nelson Eddy</a> in the remake, but those plans fell through.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MGM's <i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(1951_film)" title="Show Boat (1951 film)">Show Boat</a></i> did not begin filming until late 1950, and was released in the summer of 1951 with <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Grayson" title="Kathryn Grayson">Kathryn Grayson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Howard_Keel" title="Howard Keel">Howard Keel</a> in the leading roles.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fact that Paul Robeson, who had played Joe in the 1936 version, was <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" title="Hollywood blacklist">blacklisted</a> in 1950 further assured that the 1936 film would not be seen for a long time,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and it was not widely seen again until after Robeson's death in 1976.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1983 it made its debut on <a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a>, and a few years later, on <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It was subsequently shown on <a href="/wiki/Turner_Network_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Turner Network Television">TNT</a> and now turns up from time to time on <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">TCM</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2014, a restoration of the film became available on DVD in the U.S. as part of <a href="/wiki/Warner_Home_Video" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Home Video">Warner Home Video</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Warner_Archive_Collection" title="Warner Archive Collection">Archive Collection line</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-wac_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wac-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2020, a 4K restoration Blu-ray was released by <a href="/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-criterion_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criterion-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-slant_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slant-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_additions">Musical additions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Musical additions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Show_Boat_(1936_film)" title="Special:EditPage/Show Boat (1936 film)">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Ten numbers from the stage score are actually sung, with four others heard only as background music, and a tiny, almost unrecognizable fragment of the song "I Might Fall Back on You" is heard instrumentally at the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve" title="New Year's Eve">New Year's Eve</a> sequence. Except for three new dialogue scenes, the final ten minutes of the film, and the three additional songs written for the movie by Kern and Hammerstein, the 1936 <i>Show Boat</i> follows the stage musical extremely closely, unlike the 1929 film and the 1951 version released by <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a>. It is so faithful that even several instrumental pieces not by Kern which <i>are</i> regularly included as part of the show's score are retained in the film. The film also retains much of the comedy in the show. </p><p>The three new songs written by Kern and Hammerstein for the 1936 film are: </p> <ul><li>"I Have The Room Above Her", a duet for Magnolia and Ravenal, sung in a new scene not included in the original play, but performed approximately in the spot in which the song <i>I Might Fall Back On You</i> was sung by Frank and Ellie, the comic dance team, in the show. "I Might Fall Back On You" is not sung in the film; a tiny fragment of it is heard instrumentally in the New Year's Eve sequence. <a href="/wiki/Harold_Prince" title="Harold Prince">Harold Prince</a> included "I Have the Room Above Her" in his 1993 stage revival of <i>Show Boat</i>.</li> <li>"Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", a <a href="/wiki/Blackface" title="Blackface">blackface</a> number, not in the original (in which there are no blackface numbers, per se, although the original Queenie, <a href="/wiki/Tess_Gardella" title="Tess Gardella">Tess Gardella</a>, did play her role in blackface). It is sung on the show boat stage by Magnolia, in place of the orchestral <a href="/wiki/Olio_(musical_number)" title="Olio (musical number)">Olio Dance</a> performed by Frank in the original play. Certain short excerpts of "Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", played in up-tempo, are utilized towards the ending of the film to signify the passage of many years' time, whereas certain other short excerpts of "Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", played in down-tempo, are utilized towards the ending of the film to represent Kim's first starring performance (seen, very briefly, before the film's final reprises of <i>You Are Love</i> and <i>Ol' Man River</i>).</li> <li>"Ah Still Suits Me", a comic duet for Joe and Queenie, written especially to expand both their roles, and sung in a new scene specially written for the film.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Songs">Songs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Cotton Blossom" – mixed chorus of dock workers (song begins over opening credits)</li> <li>"Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo" – Charles Winninger, danced by Queenie Smith and Sammy White</li> <li>"Where's the Mate For Me?" – Allan Jones</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Make_Believe_(Jerome_Kern_song)" title="Make Believe (Jerome Kern song)">Make Believe</a>" – Allan Jones and Irene Dunne</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ol%27_Man_River" title="Ol' Man River">Ol' Man River</a>" – Paul Robeson and men's chorus of dock workers</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Can%27t_Help_Lovin%27_Dat_Man" title="Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man">Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man</a>" – Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson and levee workers, danced by Dunne and levee workers</li> <li>"Life Upon the Wicked Stage" (instrumental version) – show boat brass band (used as exit music from the Cotton Palace performances)</li> <li>"I Have the Room Above Her" – Allan Jones and Irene Dunne</li> <li>"At the Fair" (instrumental version) –show boat brass band</li> <li>"Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>" – Irene Dunne and show boat chorus, danced by Irene Dunne and show boat chorus</li> <li>"Ol' Man River" (partial only) – Dock workers (humming)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Are_Love" title="You Are Love">You Are Love</a>" – Allan Jones and Irene Dunne</li> <li>"Cakewalk from Act I Finale" – danced by levee workers</li> <li>"Ol' Man River" (partial reprise) – Paul Robeson in voiceover</li> <li>"Ah Still Suits Me" – Paul Robeson and Hattie McDaniel</li> <li>"Why Do I Love You" – heard as instrumental background music</li> <li>"Nun's Processional" – nuns' chorus (Sung in Latin)</li> <li>"Make Believe (reprise)" – Allan Jones</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bill_(Show_Boat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill (Show Boat)">Bill</a>" – Helen Morgan</li> <li>"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (reprise) – Irene Dunne, danced by Sammy White</li> <li>"Goodbye, My Lady Love" – Queenie Smith and Sammy White, danced by them also</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/After_the_Ball_(song)" title="After the Ball (song)">After the Ball</a>" – Irene Dunne and Trocadero chorus</li> <li>"Make Believe" (reprise) (partial, and added to the film) – Allan Jones</li> <li>"Gallivantin' Aroun<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>" (instrumental reprise) – danced by Sunnie O'Dea and dancers</li> <li>Finale ("You Are Love" and "Ol' Man River") – Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, and, in voiceover, Paul Robeson</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accolades">Accolades</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996, this version of <i>Show Boat</i> was selected for preservation in the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film is recognized by <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> in these lists: </p> <ul><li>2002: <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Passions" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions">AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions</a> – Nominated<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Songs" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs">AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs</a>: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ol%27_Man_River#Various_versions" title="Ol' Man River">Ol' Man River</a>" – #24<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_Greatest_Movie_Musicals" title="AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals">AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals</a> – #24<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Home_media">Home media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Home media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Show Boat</i> was made available on <a href="/wiki/VHS" title="VHS">VHS</a> beginning in 1990 (MGM/UA M301757).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Voyager Company, under its <a href="/wiki/Criterion_Collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Criterion Collection">Criterion Collection</a> Label, released two versions on <a href="/wiki/Laserdisc" class="mw-redirect" title="Laserdisc">laserdisc</a> in 1989 of the 1936 version. One was a special edition with extras that included the history of show boats in general and its stage and film history, and the other was a movie only version.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> MGM/UA Home Video released the 1929, 1936 and 1951 versions, as well as the <i>Show Boat</i> sequence from <i><a href="/wiki/Till_the_Clouds_Roll_By" title="Till the Clouds Roll By">Till the Clouds Roll By</a></i>, as <i>The Complete Show Boat</i> collection on <a href="/wiki/Laserdisc" class="mw-redirect" title="Laserdisc">laserdisc</a> in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1929 version was restored and this release is the most complete version available. The transfer for the 1936 version is the same as the <a href="/wiki/Criterion_Collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Criterion Collection">Criterion Collection</a> and the 1951 was from the restored stereo release MGM had done earlier.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A Brazilian company, Classicline, released a poor quality DVD version in 2003.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In February 2014, a restoration of the film became available on DVD in the U.S. as part of <a href="/wiki/Warner_Home_Video" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Home Video">Warner Home Video</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Warner_Archive_Collection" title="Warner Archive Collection">Archive Collection line</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wac_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wac-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initial inventory will be filled by manufactured DVDs; subsequent inventory will be filled by DVDs-on-demand (DVD-Rs). Warner has since discontinued this edition.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In March 2020, Criterion released both a DVD and Blu-ray of this version, with footage from the 1929 version and commentary by Miles Krueger on both the feature film and the 1929 footage, both ported over from the CAV laserdisc release.<sup id="cite_ref-criterion_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criterion-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-slant_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slant-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Show_Boat_(1936_film)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-dick-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dick_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFDick2015" class="citation book cs1">Dick, Bernard K. (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=O6kfBgAAQBAJ&q=nate+blumberg+universal&pg=PA108"><i>City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures</i></a>. University Press of Kentucky. p. 100. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813158891" title="Special:BookSources/9780813158891"><bdi>9780813158891</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=City+of+Dreams%3A+The+Making+and+Remaking+of+Universal+Pictures&rft.pages=100&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Kentucky&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9780813158891&rft.aulast=Dick&rft.aufirst=Bernard+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DO6kfBgAAQBAJ%26q%3Dnate%2Bblumberg%2Buniversal%26pg%3DPA108&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShow+Boat+%281936+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1033">"Detail view of Movies Page"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Detail+view+of+Movies+Page&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afi.com%2Fmembers%2Fcatalog%2FDetailView.aspx%3Fs%3D%26Movie%3D1033&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShow+Boat+%281936+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nytdunne-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytdunne_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytdunne_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcManus1936" class="citation news cs1">McManus, John T. (May 17, 1936). "Magnolia of the Movies". <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. p. X3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Magnolia+of+the+Movies&rft.pages=X3&rft.date=1936-05-17&rft.aulast=McManus&rft.aufirst=John+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShow+Boat+%281936+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The original songs and the various film versions, and their replacements, are available on the three-CD set from EMI as CDS 7-49108-2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNugent1936" class="citation news cs1">Nugent, Frank S. (May 15, 1936). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E3DF103FEE3BBC4D52DFB366838D629EDE">"Movie Review - - THE SCREEN; A Bravo for Universal's Splendid Film Edition of 'Show Boat,' at the Radio City Music Hall. - NYTimes.com"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Movie+Review+-+-+THE+SCREEN%3B+A+Bravo+for+Universal%27s+Splendid+Film+Edition+of+%27Show+Boat%2C%27+at+the+Radio+City+Music+Hall.+-+NYTimes.com&rft.date=1936-05-15&rft.aulast=Nugent&rft.aufirst=Frank+S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmovies.nytimes.com%2Fmovie%2Freview%3Fres%3D9B05E3DF103FEE3BBC4D52DFB366838D629EDE&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShow+Boat+%281936+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreene1936" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Greene, Graham</a> (June 26, 1936). 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Help Lovin' Dat Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bill_(song)" title="Bill (song)">Bill</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/After_the_Ball_(song)" title="After the Ball (song)">After the Ball</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat" title="Show Boat">Show Boat</a></i> (1927, musical)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(1959_cast_album)" title="Show Boat (1959 cast album)">Show Boat</a></i> (1959 cast album)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn_and_Friends_Play_Show_Boat" title="André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat">André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat</a></i> (1995 instrumental jazz album)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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(1941)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg/55px-Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="55" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg/83px-Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg/110px-Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="416" data-file-height="585" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed</i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Personality_Plus" title="Personality Plus">Personality Plus</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i>Fanny Herself</i> (1917)</li> <li><i>The Girls</i> (1921)</li> <li><i>Gigolo</i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Big_(novel)" title="So Big (novel)">So Big</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(novel)" title="Show Boat (novel)">Show Boat</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cimarron_(novel)" title="Cimarron (novel)">Cimarron</a></i> (1929)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Beauty_(Edna_Ferber_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Beauty (Edna Ferber novel)">American Beauty</a></i> (1931)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Come_and_Get_It_(novel)" title="Come and Get It (novel)">Come and Get It</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Trunk_(novel)" title="Saratoga Trunk (novel)">Saratoga Trunk</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i>Great Son</i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Giant</i> (1952)</li> <li><i>Ice Palace</i> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Old_Man_Minick" title="Old Man Minick">Old Man Minick</a>" (1922 short story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Peculiar_Treasure" title="A Peculiar Treasure">A Peculiar Treasure</a></i> (1939 autobiography)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">"Old Man Minick"</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Minick" title="Minick">Minick</a></i> (1924 play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Welcome_Home_(1925_film)" title="Welcome Home (1925 film)">Welcome Home</a></i> (1925 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Expert_(1932_film)" title="The Expert (1932 film)">The Expert</a></i> (1932 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Place_to_Go_(1939_film)" title="No Place to Go (1939 film)">No Place to Go</a></i> (1939 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Gigolo</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gigolo_(1926_film)" title="Gigolo (1926 film)">Gigolo</a></i> (1926 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>So Big</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Big_(1924_film)" title="So Big (1924 film)">So Big</a></i> (1924 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Big!_(1932_film)" 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(1932 film)">So Big</a></i> (1932 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/So_Big_(1953_film)" title="So Big (1953 film)">So Big</a></i> (1953 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Show Boat</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat" title="Show Boat">Show Boat</a></i> (1927 musical)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(1929_film)" title="Show Boat (1929 film)">Show Boat</a></i> (1929 film)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Show Boat</a></i> (1936 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Show_Boat_(1951_film)" title="Show Boat (1951 film)">Show Boat</a></i> (1951 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>The Royal Family</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a 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