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Home Productions Show Boat (1938)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1938
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

Norma Terris
Magnolia/Kim (as a young woman)
Marcella Uhl
Landlady
Gladstone Waldrip
Jeb
Pauline Rubie
Dahomey Dancers
Daphne Tyus
Dahomey Dancers
Jack Sheehan
Frank
Dalfred Stelle
Dahomey Dancers
Jerry Sloane
Pete
Kenneth Spencer
Joe
Larry Siegle
Man with Guitar
Ronald Graham
Gaylord Ravenal
Vicki Cummings
Ellie
Nellie Harrell
Dahomey Dancers
Mary Louise Crowe
La Belle Fatima
Minto Cato
Queenie
Annamary Dickey
Sister
Hazel Giles
Dahomey Dancers
Mickey Adams
Dahomey Dancers
Margaret Carlisle
Julie
Jeanne Gustavison
Mother Superior
John Blaine
Jake
Al Downing
Windy
Jack Carr
Jim
Velma Anderson
Dahomey Dancers
Lula Herd
Dahomey Dancers
Vivian McCullen
Dahomey Dancers
Anita Heinrichsemeyer
Kim (child)
George Rasely
Cap'n Andy
Flossie Henry
Dahomey Dancers
Joseph Macaulay
Vallon
Helen Raymond
Parthy Ann Hawks
Frederic Persson
Backwoodsman
Earle MacVeigh
Steve
Harriett Johnson
Dahomey Dancers
Dorothy McQutti
Dahomey Dancers