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24 September 1951 (USA)
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The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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Jennie Eisenhower Cast In The Media Theatre's Show Boat 9/30-11/1
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 1 November 2009, 1:00 AM, PST)
Photo Flash: Rebecca Luker Celebrates Greenwich Time at Barnes & Noble
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(From BroadwayWorld.com. 1 November 2009, 1:00 AM, PST)
Photo Flash: Rebecca Luker Celebrates Greenwich Time at Barnes & Noble
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The Dubbing of Ava Gardner's Voice
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Kathryn Grayson | ... | Magnolia Hawks |
 | Ava Gardner | ... | Julie LaVerne |
 | Howard Keel | ... | Gaylord Ravenal |
| Joe E. Brown | ... | Cap'n Andy Hawks |
| Marge Champion | ... | Ellie May Shipley |
| Gower Champion | ... | Frank Schultz |
| Robert Sterling | ... | Steve Baker |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Parthy Hawks |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Pete (as Lief Erickson) |
| William Warfield | ... | Joe |
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107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The original production of Showboat opened in the Ziegfeld Theater on December 27, 1927 and ran for 572 performances.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At one point, Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson) refers to Lady Southweight and Hamilton Barsdale as being characters in "Tempest and Sunshine", a melodrama adapted from a then-popular novel. There are no such characters in that play. In the scene in which Cap'n Andy (Joe E. Brown) introduces the show boat actors to the crowd, Julie (Ava Gardner) and Steve (Robert Sterling) make another reference to Hamilton, and Cap'n Andy then says: "You have to see the play tonight folks, to learn their secret - "Tempest and Sunshine", beautiful drama of tears and laughter".
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Featured in "MGM: When the Lion Roars" (1992)
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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
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What is the biggest difference between the original show and this film version of "Show Boat"?Is "Cotton Blossom", the opening number, sung the same way in this film as in the show?
How different, overall, is this 1951 film from the original show as well as the 1936 film?
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Show Boat is one of my favourite musicals, and I admit to being a solid Howard Keel fan! However, the one thing that gets me, and why they haven't returned it to the original film track, is the dubbing of Ava Gardner's voice.
I have a copy of the soundtrack on good old vinyl and have Ava singing her own songs on it and I have to say, in my humble opinion, that she actually did a better job of it, than the person who dubbed her.
Maybe in 1951 Ava's rendition was a bit.... too hot for the censors, but today, never. Why can't we have Ava's voice back on the film??? What do the rest of you think?