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Author:

Show boat (Motion picture : 1936)

Title:

Show boat / producer, Carl Laemmle Jr. ; screenplay, Oscar Hammerstein II ; directed by James Whale.

Edition:

DVD special edition ; DVD edition.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..

Subject:

Showboats--Drama.
Entertainers--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Mississippi River--Drama.
Race relations--Drama.
Ferber, Edna,--1887-1968--Film adaptations.
Kern, Jerome,--1885-1945--Film adaptations.
Romance films.
Musical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Whale, James, 1889-1957, director.
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 1908-1979, film producer.
lyricist. II, 1895-1960, screenwriter lyricist.
Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990, actor.
Jones, Allan, 1907-1992, actor.
Winninger, Charles, 1884-1969, actor.
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945, composer (expression)
Mescall, John, 1899-1962, cinematographer.
Burton, Bernard W., editor of moving image work.
Kent, Ted J., editor of moving image work.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show boat.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. At head of title on container: Edna Ferber's. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber and the stage musical by Jerome Kern; stageplay, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Mono, full screen 1.37:1. Features: audio commentary from 1989 featuring American-musical historian Miles Kreuger; new interview with James Whale biographer James Curtis; "Recognizing race in Show boat," a new interview program featuring professor and author Shana L. Redmond; Academy Award-winning short documentary "Paul Robeson : tribute to an artist" (1979) by Saul J. Turell, newly restored; two performances from the sound prologue of the 1929 film version of Show boat, plus twenty minutes of silent excerpts from the film, with audio commentary by Kreuger; two radio adaptations of Show boat, featuring stage and screen cast members Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, and Charles Winninger, actor Orson Welles, and novelist Edna Ferber. Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan.

Summary:

Follows the life journey and heartbreak of Magnolia Hawks, daughter of a MIssissippi River showboat captain.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 1021.

ISBN:

9781681437071
1681437074

UPC:

715515243315

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)