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Home Productions Show Boat (1934)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1934
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

Herbert Weber
Faro Dealer/Man with guitar
Reba Schinault
Jennie
Sam Thomas
Charlie/Gambler
Sammy White
Frank
Sally Warren
Congress of Beauty
Inez Scott
Dahomey Dancers
Maud Ream Stover
Parthy Ann Hawks
Marie Starner
La Belle Fatima/Lottie
Sheila Harling
Hazel
Marvel Conheeny
Sister
Elizabeth Crandall
Mother Superior/Old Lady on levee
Gladys Baxter
Julie
Frances Belz
Kim (child)
Georgette Harvey
Queenie
Lois B. Deppe
Joe
Leonard Ceeley
Steve
Hazel Giles
Dahomey Dancers
Victor Casmore
Jim/Backwoodsman
Amy Corneal
Dahomey Dancer
Ann Blair
Dahomey Dancers
Ruth Burton
Dahomey Dancers
Helen Eck
Dolly
Truman Gaige
Rubber Face
Maude Oswald
Carrie
Lula Herd
Dahomey Dancers
Georgia Moore
Dahomey Dancers
Allan Jones
Gaylord Ravenal
Robert Long
Windy
Joseph Macaulay
Vallon
Frank Horn
Pete
Frederic Persson
Jeb/Jake
Doris Pitts
Dahomey Dancers
Aquila McKay
Ethel
Dorothea Micheau
Dahomey Dancers
Muriel Lemmons
Dahomey Dancers
Willie Mae Perkins
Dahomey Dancers
Naomi Perkins
Dahomey Dancers
Frank Lyerson
George
Charlotte Lansing
Magnolia/Kim (as a young woman)
Edith King
Landlady
William Kent
Cap'n Andy