Show Boat 1951

Locations
Call Number: DVD Musical Show
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Musical Show	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD Musical Show	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Based on the musical play by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II from Edna Ferber's novel.
Special features include: original theatrical trailer ; scene selection.
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield.
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
DVD.
Contents: Show boat.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A classic! submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 10, 2016, 7:10pm And since it was a "period piece" when it was first written and performed, it stands up just like it was filmed yesterday. A great cast, great voices and wonderful music. A must for any musical theater buff.

Blackface musical scene submitted by willow on August 31, 2016, 6:44am Kathryn Grayson performs a blackface scene as Magnolia, singing "Gallivanting Around," containing the usual stereotypes.

Also Ava Garner plays a mixed race woman, Julie, whose marriage to a white man contravenes anti-miscegenation laws.

An additional note about this film is that it removes the racial references to "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and changes the lyrics from "shiftless" to "dreamer."