Show Boat
Starring: Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger
Director: James Whale
Writer: Oscar Hammerstein II, Zoë Akins, Edna Ferber
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Show Boat is a 1936 American 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.
Trivia
- Based on Show Boat (novel by Edna Ferber).
- Robeson, for whom the role of Joe was actually written, had appeared in the show onstage in London in 1928 and in the Broadway revival of 1932.
- Dunne had been brought in to replace Norma Terris, the original Magnolia, in the touring version of the show, and had toured the U.S. in the role beginning in 1929.
- Francis X. Mahoney, who played the brief role of the comic stagehand "Rubber Face" Smith, had also starred in the original production and in the 1932 Broadway revival, and would repeat his role in the 1946 Broadway revival of Show Boat, two years before his death.
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 8 Festivals
9,090 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (June 11, 1936)
Original Run: June 11, 1936 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (10):
- June 11, 1936 (Thursday - Saturday)Irene Dunne, Allan Jones
- July 29 - 30, 1993 · 940 ticketsw/ The Gay Divorcee
- October 30 - November 2, 1999 · 1,058 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ Cabin in the Sky
- April 5 - 6, 2001 · 1,076 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Roberta
- September 4 - 7, 2003 · 1,736 ticketsSummer 2003w/ Love Me Tonight
- July 30 - August 1, 2008 · 1,128 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ San Francisco
- November 20 - 22, 2010 · 929 ticketsFall 2010 Featuring film noir every Thursday and Fridayw/ Gold Diggers of 1933
- January 11 - 14, 2013 · 944 ticketsJanuary 2013 More Classics from Universal Picturesw/ My Man Godfrey
- November 25 - 26, 2023 · 565 ticketsHoliday Favorites plus Deanna Durbinw/ One More River
- January 31 - February 1, 2026 · 714 ticketsMusicals, plus Bob Hopew/ Roberta