Come one, come all to the Show Boat show! From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol’ Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin’ along. Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor radiance, a made-from-scratch 170-foot paddle wheeler, timeless songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. “This was music that would outlast Kern’s day and mine,” Freber said in recalling her first reaction to hearing Ol’ Man River. She was right as rain.
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Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Gower Champion, William Warfield, Marge Champion, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Sterling, Leif Erickson, Regis Toomey, Anna Q. Nilsson, Bert Roach, Adele Jergens, Frank Wilcox, Frances E. Williams, Joyce Jameson, Tom Irish, Norman Leavitt, Emory Parnell, Fuzzy Knight, Chick Chandler, William Tannen, Ian MacDonald, Edward Keane, Lisa Ferraday, Louis Mercier, Owen McGiveney, Judy Landon, Ida Moore, George Lynn, Robert Fortier, Bette Arlen, Alphonse Martell, Roy Damron, Linda Christian, James Pierce, Anne Dore, Frank Dae, Peter Camlin, Carol Brewster, Bess Flowers, Mitchell Ryan, John Phillip Law, John Crawford, Shep Houghton, Suzanne Ridgeway, Sue Casey, Chet Brandenburg.
