Show Boat

1936
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1h 53m

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Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Helen Morgan, and Charles Winninger in Show Boat (1936)

Classic Musical Comedy Drama Musical Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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7,4/10

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Prix
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
Special permission had to be granted from the Hays Office in order to retain the famous miscegenation (interracial marriage) sequence in the movie. Miscegenation was banned as a film subject, and had been excluded from Show Boat (1929).

Gaffes
When Joe begins to sing "Ol' Man River", he picks up a board and begins to whittle it. He slices off two pieces, and then the camera switches to an oblique shot, but now the board is whittled to a slender rod.

Citations
Joe: I just shell them peas.
Queenie: You ain't pickin' them up.
Joe: No, but I could've if you didn't. I could do a lotta things if it was necessary.
Queenie: Then why don't you?
Joe: It ain't necessary.

Générique farfelu
In the opening credits, there is a cardboard cutout display of a show boat parade, with cutout paper townspeople watching it, on a moving turntable. The parade revolves past the camera carrying cardboard banners on which are printed the title and other credits. Most of the parade figures are simply figures, but among them cutouts of Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan can be seen. (The appearance of these figures does not coincide with the appearance of their names onscreen.) In the background shadows of a paddlewheel and a riverboat can be seen.

Connexions
Featured in The All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing Show (1973)

Bandes originales
Cotton Blossom
(1927) (uncredited)
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by offscreen mixed chorus (during opening credits) and in opening scene by mixed chorus of dock workers

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Sixty-six years and the charm is still there.

Superb casting, wonderful music, and simple but literate dialogue. Paul Robeson's rendition of Old Man River is captivating, and this film is the only time I've heard the second stanza of the song which I'm sure many people would feel is not politically correct for our day. This really is an elegant production.