page_title: Show Boat (1936 film)
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Show Boat (1936 film) / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Irene Dunne and John J. Mescall (cinematographer) on the set of Show Boat (1936) - publicity still
context_page_description: Show Boat is a 1936 romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.
  Universal Pictures had filmed the part-talkie Show Boat which was released in 1929. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with that film, and wanted to make an all-sound version of the musical. It was originally scheduled to be made in 1934, but plans to make this version with Russ Columbo as the gambler Gaylord Ravenal fell through when Columbo was killed that year in a shotgun accident, and production of the film was rescheduled. The film, with several members of the original Broadway cast, began principal photography in late 1935 and was released in 1936.
  In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the film. Two of them were performed in spots previously reserved for songs from the stage production.
context_section_description: Irene Dunne as Magnolia
  Allan Jones as Gaylord Ravenal
  Charles Winninger as Cap'n Andy Hawks
  Paul Robeson as Joe
  Helen Morgan as Julie
  Helen Westley as Parthy Ann Hawks
  Queenie Smith as Ellie May Chipley
  Sammy White as Frank Schultz
  Donald Cook as Steve Baker
  Hattie McDaniel as Queenie
  Francis X. Mahoney as Rubber Face Smith
  Marilyn Knowlden as Kim (as a Child)
  Sunnie O'Dea as Kim (at Sixteen)
  Arthur Hohl as Pete
  Charles B. Middleton as Vallon
  J. Farrell MacDonald as Windy
  Clarence Muse as Janitor
  Charles C. Wilson as Jim Green (uncredited)
  J. Gunnis Davis as Doctor (uncredited)
  Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Young Black Man (uncredited)
caption: Irene Dunne and John J. Mescall (cinematographer) on the set of Show Boat (1936) - publicity still
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