Edna Ferber's Show boat / a Universal Picture ; Carl Laemmle presents ; a James Whale production ; produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. ; stage play, screen play and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; music by Jerome Kern ; directed by James Whale.

Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Show boat (Motion picture : 1936)
Corporate Authors: Universal Pictures Corporation (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Whale, James, 1889-1957 (Film director)
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 1908-1979 (Film producer)
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960 (Screenwriter, Lyricist)
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (composer (expression))
Kent, Ted (Editor of moving image work)
Burton, Bernard (Editor of moving image work)
Hall, Charles D., 1888-1970 (Art director)
Zinkeisen, Doris (Costume designer)
Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990 (Actor)
Jones, Allan, 1907-1992 (Actor)
Winninger, Charles, 1884-1969 (Actor)
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 (Actor)
Morgan, Helen, 1900-1941 (Actor)
Westley, Helen, 1875 or 1879-1942 (Actor)
Smith, Queenie, 1902-1978 (Actor)
Cook, Donald, 1901-1961 (Actor)
McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952 (Actor)
White, Sammy, 1894-1960 (Actor)
Mahoney, Francis X., 1884-1948 (Actor)
O'Dea, Sunnie, 1918- (Actor)
Hohl, Arthur, 1889-1964 (Actor)
Middleton, Charles B., 1879-1949 (Actor)
MacDonald, J. Farrell, 1875-1952 (Actor)
Muse, Clarence (Actor)
Knowlden, Marilyn, 1926- (Actor)
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968
Language:English
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Edition:DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 1021.
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Genre:
Physical Description:1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Variant Title:
Show boat
Showboat
Format: Video DVD

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