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Home Productions Show Boat (1930)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1930
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

Sammy White
Frank
Sylvia Saunders
Sister
Edith Wright
Ethel/Old Lady on the Levee
Nelson Zimmer
Jeb
Maud Ream Stover
Parthy Ann Hawks
Guy Robertson
Gaylord Ravenal
Lois B. Deppe
Joe
Leonard Ceeley
Steve
Betti Davis
Hazel
Hal Forde
Windy
Margaret Carlisle
Julie
Alice Fischeles
Mother Superior
William Blanch
Rubber Face
George Anderson
Vallon
Fisk University Male Octet
Scene Change Singers
George Anderson
Max
Dorothy Doll
Lottie
W.C. Hawks
Cap'n Andy
Elsie Doleres
Kim (As a Child)
Eva Puck
Ellie
Robert Long
Backwoodsman
Frank Horn
Pete
Maude Odell
Landlady
A.W. Hempelmann
The Old Sport
Frederic Persson
Jake
Mammy Jinny
Queenie
Edgar Hill
Faro Dealer
Edgar Hunt
Man with the guitar
Charlotte Lansing
Magnolia/Kim (as a young woman)
Dassah Mackintire
Dollie