Show boat
DVD - 2020
Follows the life journey and heartbreak of Magnolia Hawks, daughter of a MIssissippi River showboat captain.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Romance films
Musical films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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New York, NY :
Criterion Collection
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
At head of title on container: Edna Ferber's.
Based on the novel by Edna Ferber and the stage musical by Jerome Kern; stageplay, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Mono, full screen 1.37:1.
Features: audio commentary from 1989 featuring American-musical historian Miles Kreuger; new interview with James Whale biographer James Curtis; "Recognizing race in Show boat," a new interview program featuring professor and author Shana L. Redmond; Academy Award-winning short documentary "Paul Robeson : tribute to an artist" (1979) by Saul J. Turell, newly restored; two performances from the sound prologue of the 1929 film version of Show boat, plus twenty minutes of silent excerpts from the film, with audio commentary by Kreuger; two radio adaptations of Show boat, featuring stage and screen cast members Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, and Charles Winninger, actor Orson Welles, and novelist Edna Ferber. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography by John J. Mescall ; editor, Bernard W. Burton, Ted J. Kent ; lryics, Oscar Hammerstein II ; music, Jerome Kern.
- ISBN
- 9781681437071
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