Show Boat (1951) | |
| Director(s) | George Sidney |
| Producer(s) | Arthur Freed |
| Top Genres | Drama, Family, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Gambling, Marriage, Prejudice, Remake, Old South |
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Show Boat (1951) was a Musical - Black-and-white Film directed by George Sidney and produced by Arthur Freed.
Show Boat was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996.
Academy Awards 1951 --- Ceremony Number 24 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | Charles Rosher | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger | Nominated |
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Musical Monday: Show Boat (1936)
on Aug 12, 2019 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: Show Boat (1936) ? Musical #... Read full article
Musical Monday: Show Boat (1951)
on Jan 28, 2019 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: Show Boat (1951)?? Musical #... Read full article
Show Boat (1936)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 4, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsMost of what I know about riverboats can be gleaned from Mark Twain, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, and that ever beloved Snoopy incarnation The World Famous River Boat Gambler. The 1936 musical Show Boat falls into that very same rich tradition but some clarification is in order. In truth, th... Read full article
Show Boat (1936)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 4, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsMost of what I know about riverboats can be gleaned from Mark Twain, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, and that ever beloved Snoopy incarnation The World Famous River Boat Gambler. The 1936 musical Show Boat falls into that very same rich tradition but some clarification is in order. In truth, th... Read full article
Show Boat - The Story Behind One of America's Greatest Musicals
By The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 6, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversA Ziegfeld show typically summons to mind images of glorified girls in fantastic headdresses descending twirling staircases to the strains of haunting melodies. Florenz Ziegfeld was the great glorifier of the American girl, it’s true. It is also true that he produced lavish revues brimming wit... Read full article
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Quotes from
Magnolia: Julie, nothing's changed.
Julie: [embracing Magnolia] Oh Nollie, Nollie, always true! Stay happy now.
Drunken sport: [on hearing Magnolia try to sing at the Trocadero] Take her back to the river... hee, hee, hee!
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Facts about
Ava Gardner's original vocal track of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and Annette Warren's dubbed-in vocal track of the song were both modelled on Lena Horne's rendition of it in the then-recent M-G-M biography of Jerome Kern, "Till the Clouds Roll By". Warren's vocal tracks of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill", not Ava Gardner's, were the ones that eventually ended up being used in the film.
It reportedly took only one take for William Warfield to pre-record his rendition of "Ol' Man River" prior to filming.
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