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Home Productions Show Boat (1952)

Show Boat

Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber
Production Year: 1952
Synopsis:
A young girl raised on a floating show boat theatre finds love and heartbreak with a riverboat gambler.

Cast Member

Role

Ernest Thompson
Man with a guitar
Jack Rutherford
Backwoodsman
Jack Rutherford
Vallon
Vincent Vernon
Windy
Iva Withers
Magnolia/Kim (in her twenties)
Mary Wickes
Parthy Ann Hawks
Rene Wiegert
Jake
Van Schnellbacher
3rd Barker
Edwin Steffe
Cap'n Andy
William C. Smith
Joe
Clara Etta Smith
Ethel
Mary Jo Goodson
Fatima
Joseph Cusanelli
Jim/Jeb
Arthur F. Gibbs
2nd Barker/Rubber Face
Donald Clarke
Gaylord Ravenal
Julanne Conrad
Mother Superior
Gratia Christie
Dolly
Sara Floyd
Landlady/Old Lady on the Levee
Janet Dunphy
Kim (As a Child)
Chester Bridges
Doorman at the Trocadero
Albert Foster
Legend Singers
Marie Foster
Ellie
Edward Krawll
Pete
Jean Kraemer
Lottie
Lindsay Kirk
Sally
Mariquita Moll
Julie
James McGregor
1st Barker
William Olvis
Steve
Bertha Powell
Queenie
Hal LeRoy
Frank