Show Boat

Movie · 2h 26m

Starring Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel