Showboat 1936

Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive, daughter of Cap'n Andy Hawks, the genial proprietor of a show boat that cruises the Missisippi, and his nagging wife, Parthy. She is best friends with the show boat's star, Julie LaVerne, but Julie and her husband Steve are forced to leave when it is revealed that Julie has "Negro" blood in her, thereby breaking the state law by being married to the white Steve. Magnolia replaces Julie as the show boat's female star, and the show's new male star is the suave gambler Gaylord Ravenal. "Nola" and Gaylord fall in love and marry against Parthy's wishes. They and their young daughter lead the high life when Gaylord is lucky in gambling, but live like dirt when he's unlucky. During one such unlucky streak, a broken Gaylord leaves Nola, and she is forced to start over by returning to the stage. Like Old Man River, as the famous song from this show goes, she just keeps rollin' along.

Showboat 1951 

The "Cotton Blossom", owned by the Hawk family, is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. Julie Laverne and her husband are the stars of the show. After, a snitch on board calls the local police that Julie (who's half- African-American) is married to a whiteman, they are forced to leave the show boat. The reason being, that down south interracial marriages are forbidden. Magnolia Hawk, Captain Andy Hawks daughter, becomes the new show boat attraction and her leading man is Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. The two instantly fall in love, and marry, without Parthy Hawks approval. Magnolia and Gaylord leave the, "Cotton Blossom", for a whirl wind honeymoon and being to live in a Pl: fantasy world. Magnolia soon faces reality quickly, that gambling means more to Gaylord than anything else. Magnolia confront Gaylord and after he gambles away their fortune he leaves her - not knowing she is pregnant. Magnolia is left penniless and pregnant. 

TERMS & CONDITIONS
This listing conforms fully with Ebay's Terms & conditions. A little more about the Public Domain/Non-Copyright side of things, any items sold here, where the content has entered the Public Domain or been purchased and re-packaged for sale from Public Domain sites can be defined in the following Disclaimer:
***DISCLAIMER*** Anything that is NOT protected under copyright law. This includes ALL works published before 1923 AND under certain conditions, works published up to 1978. A ‘work’ can be anything; a book, a play, music, photographs, movies, instruction manuals poster, etc. Re-published and re-packaging public domain information and other creative works is not illegal. The reason is fairly simple. If you find re-packaged and sell information that has fallen into the public domain you do not have to pay royalties or copyright fees on that work.