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Genres:
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Drama /
Musical /
Romance
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Director:
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George Sidney
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Actors:
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Howard Keel,
Joe E. Brown,
Kathryn Grayson,
Robert Sterling,
Gower Champion,
William Warfield,
Ava Gardner,
Marge Champion,
Agnes Moorehead,
Leif Erickson
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)88.5
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Plot Summary:
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The "Cotton Blossom", owned by the Hawk family, is the demonstrate yacht where every Tom comes for great euphonious entertainment down south. Julie Laverne and her husband are the stars of the represent. After, a snitch on scantling calls the provincial police that Julie (who's half- African-American) is married to a whiteman, they are forced to leave the show boat. The as a result of being, that down south interracial marriages are forbidden. Magnolia Hawk, Captain Andy Hawks daughter, becomes the new ostentation vessel attraction and her leading crew is Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. The two i... nstantly fall in ardour, and marry, without Parthy Hawks approval. Magnolia and Gaylord give up the, "Cotton Blossom", allowing for regarding a whirl close down honeymoon and being to function in a Pl: creativity world. Magnolia soon faces reality post-haste, that gambling means more to Gaylord than anything else. Magnolia confront Gaylord and after he gambles away their luck he leaves her - not wise she is rich. Magnolia is left penniless and abounding, and is left to fend for herself, and impel a up to date start.
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Show Boat
Exuberant MGM rehash of James Whale's original (made for Universal) that is brightly colouredand highly evocative of the era of the Mississippi showboats. Kern and Hammerstein are responsible for the words and music and songs include 'Ol' Man River', 'Can't Help Loving That Man' and 'Make Believe'. Gardner, Keel, Warfield, Brown and Grayson all give sterling performances in this musical which, strangely, wasn't nominated for a single Oscar!
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