Show Boat
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Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of th
Original sheet music for "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat
Cover of the novel
Nell Brinkley's "Impressions of Ziegfeld's Show Boat"
Scene from the original Broadway production
Show Boat (1929 film)
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Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not use the 1927 stage musical of the same name as
Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut in a scene from the film.
Emily Fitzroy as Parthy
Universal lobby card, 1929