Show Boat

About Show Boat

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

George Sidney's Show Boat is a 1951 romance film. Kathryn Grayson takes the lead as Magnolia Hawks, Ava Gardner as Julie LaVerne, Howard Keel as Gaylord Ravenal, and Joe E. Brown as Cap'n Andy Hawks.

It runs 107 minutes and was released in July 1951. Written by John Lee Mahin. It is adapted from a stage production.

Members will find interracial relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, reconciliation, and riverboat in it. It scores 6.2 out of 10 from 82 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

West Side Story and South Pacific make useful companions to Show Boat, all filed under musical and based on play or musical.