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Show Boat Laserdisc 1936 Criterion #44A FLFL Estate Excellent Condition B4

Disc in Excellent/Mint condition.  Cover has minor cornerwear.



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Show Boat
1936 - 113 min. - Black and White
Genre: Musical

PLOT:

The musical's story spans about 40 years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks (Irene Dunne) is an 18-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Blossom, which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal (Allan Jones), 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 (Helen Morgan) (the show boat's leading actress, who is part black, but passing as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (Donald Cook) (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 alcoholic. 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.

Cast for Show Boat

Harry Barris (piano player at Trocadero)
George Hackathorne (omitted from release print)
Theodore Lorch (omitted from release print)
Tiny Sandford (Backwoodsman)
Max Wagner (omitted from release print)
Flora Finch (omitted from release print)
Irene Dunne
Allan Jones
Charles Winninger
Paul Robeson
Helen Morgan
Helen Westley
Queenie Smith
Sammy White
Donald Cook
Hattie McDaniel
Francis X. Mahoney
Marilyn Knowlden
Sunnie O'Dea (at 16)
Arthur Hohl
Charles Middleton
J. Farrell MacDonald
Charles C. Wilson (Trocadero Nightclub Manager)
Clarence Muse


Crew for Show Boat

Producer Carl Laemmle Jr.
Writer Oscar Hammerstein II
Cinematographer John J. Mescall
Costume Designer Doris Zinkeisen
Director James Whale
Editor Bernard W. Burton
Editor Ted J. Kent
Leighton Brill
Carl Laemmle
LeRoy Prinz
Writer Edna Ferber
Writer Oscar Hammerstein II


Catalog Number: CC1191L
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC