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Show Boat
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and Iove among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago.
But none is more satisfying than this 1936 production, wideIy accepted as the best and most faithfuI of three screen versions of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein ll musicaI. A splendid, indeed definitive cast features Irene Dunne as the Iovely Magnolia, fated to faIl for AIlan Jones' dashing riverboat gambler, GayIord RavenaI. lt is their turbuIent romance and MagnoIia's growth from a shy guiIeless girI to a mature star of the stage that form the core of the story.
ln her last film appearance, Helen Morgan wilI break your heart as the tragic Julie, with her songs "Bill" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." And there is perhaps no more memorable performance in musicaI history than Paul Roberson's moving rendition of "OI' Man River." |
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