Show Boat

The musical's story spans about 40 years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an 18-year-old on her family's showboat, the ''Cotton Blossom'', which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about 10 years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but Passing (racial identity)#Passing for white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later, Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 36764
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide May 17, 1936
  • Content Rating United States of America NR
  • Runtime 113 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio Universal Pictures
  • Production Company Universal Pictures
  • Production Countries United States of America
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