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Home Productions Show Boat (1942)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1942
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)
Ruth Urban
Landlady
Vincent Vernon
Windy
John Tyers
Steve
Sammy White
Frank
Jacqueline Stemmler
Kim (child)
Kenneth Spencer
Joe
Joseph Cochran
Two Backwoodsmen
Vicki Cummings
Ellie
Lyndon Crews
Two Backwoodsmen
Minto Cato
Queenie
Gladys Baxter
Julie
Jeanne Gustavison
Mother Superior
Al Downing
Jim
Al Downing
Pete
Frederic Persson
Jake/Vallon
Helen Raymond
Parthy Ann Hawks
Jed Prouty
Cap'n Andy
Bob Lawrence
Gaylord Ravenal