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Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive, daughter of Capn Andy Hawks, the genial proprietor of a show boat that cruises the Missisippi, and his nagging wife, Parthy. She is best friends with the show boats star, Julie LaVerne, but Julie and her husband Steve are forced to leave when it is revealed that Julie has "Negro" blood in her, thereby breaking the state law by being married to the white Steve. Magnolia replaces Julie as the show boats female star, and the shows new male star is the suave gambler Gaylord Ravenal. "Nola" and Gaylord fall in love and marry against Parthys wishes. They and their young daughter lead the high life when Gaylord is lucky in gambling, but live like dirt when hes unlucky. During one such unlucky streak, a broken Gaylord leaves Nola, and she is forced to start over by returning to the stage. Like Old Man River, as the famous song from this show goes, she just keeps rollin along.
Magnolia Hawks lives on her father Captain Andys floating show boat, the Cotton Blossom. She meets gambler Gaylord Ravenal in a river town and falls for him. That afternoon,during the rehearsal for the evenings show, star actress Julie and her husband and co-star Steve are forced to leave the company and Gaylord is hired to take Steves place, while Magnolia takes over Julies. They fall in love and marry. Leaving the showboat, Nola and Gay and their little daughter, Kim, move to Chicago, where their fortunes wax and wane depending on Gays luck. He finally leaves his wife and child and she is forced to return to the stage, where she becomes a star.
Irene Dunne
Magnolia
Allan Jones
Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger
Cap'n Andy Hawks
Paul Robeson
Joe
Helen Morgan
Julie
Helen Westley
Parthy Ann Hawks
Queenie Smith
Elly May Chipley
Sammy White
Frank Schultz
Donald Cook
Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel
Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney
Rubber Face
Marilyn Knowlden
Kim (as a Child)
Sunnie O'Dea
Kim (at Sixteen)
Arthur Hohl
Pete
Charles Middleton
Vallon
J. Farrell MacDonald
Windy
Clarence Muse
Janitor
Maude Allen
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