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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 Il musicaI. A spIendid, indeed definitive cast features Irene Dunne as the Iovely MagnoIia, fated to fall for Allan Jones' dashing riverboat gambler, GayIord Ravenal. It is their turbulent romance and MagnoIia's growth from a shy guiIeless girl to a mature star of the stage that form the core of the story.
ln her last fiIm appearance, Helen Morgan wilI break your heart as the tragic JuIie, with her songs "Bill" and "Can't HeIp Lovin' That Man." And there is perhaps no more memorabIe performance in musical history than PauI Roberson's moving rendition of "Ol' Man River." |
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