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''Show Boat'' is a 1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by Creator/JamesWhale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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''Show Boat'' is a 1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by Creator/JamesWhale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', ''[[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]]'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Magnolia is said to have black hair in the book, but every stage and film portrayal has her as a blonde.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Magnolia is said to have black hair in the book, but almost every stage and film portrayal has her as a blonde.blonde. Only Kathryn Grayson in the 1951 film has black hair.
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The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version. It is also (arguably) the UrExample of the "book" musical as we know it; previously musicals were more like revues and [[{{Vaudeville}}]].
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The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version. It is also (arguably) the UrExample of the "book" musical as we know it; previously musicals were more like revues and [[{{Vaudeville}}]].[[{{Vaudeville}} vaudeville]].
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The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version.
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The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version. It is also (arguably) the UrExample of the "book" musical as we know it; previously musicals were more like revues and [[{{Vaudeville}}]].
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** The song ‘’Old Man River’’ defies this trope in regards to black people, instead showing that a lot of times, they’re the ones who have to do the toughest jobs just to survive.
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** The song ‘’Old ''Old Man River’’ River'' defies this trope in regards to black people, instead showing that a lot of times, they’re the ones who have to do the toughest jobs just to survive.
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**The song ‘’Old Man River’’ defies this trope in regards to black people, instead showing that a lot of times, they’re the ones who have to do the toughest jobs just to survive.
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''Show Boat'' is a 1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by James Whale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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''Show Boat'' is a 1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by James Whale, Creator/JamesWhale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Hearing that Magnolia needs a singing job to raise her daughter after [[spoiler: Gaylord abandons them in shame at his inability to support them, Julie quits to open up a spot for her, without ever telling her.]]
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* HappilyMarried:
** Steve and Julie were this while they were together. Unfortunately, he abandons her after they leave the show.
** Joe's laziness may annoy Queenie, but the song "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" makes it clear that they're still very much in love with each other.
** Steve and Julie were this while they were together. Unfortunately, he abandons her after they leave the show.
** Joe's laziness may annoy Queenie, but the song "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" makes it clear that they're still very much in love with each other.
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Joe and Queenie, the two main black characters.
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* BadassBaritone: Bass-baritone Paul Robeson's memorable "Ol' Man River" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyJtGNk9iEU from the 1936 film version.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: The subjects of racial prejudice, alcoholism, love and abandonment are already serious. However, in the late 90s during an Australian production, cast member Marlon Brand stabbed his then-wife and fellow cast member Rebecca Jackson Mendoza nearly to death. She miraculously survived a massive tear in the aorta and a subsequent stroke, but Brand committed suicide. It makes the themes much sadder.
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*HarsherInHindsight: The subjects of racial prejudice, alcoholism, love and abandonment are already serious. However, in the late 90s during an Australian production, cast member Marlon Brand stabbed his then-wife and fellow cast member Rebecca Jackson Mendoza nearly to death. She miraculously survived a massive tear in the aorta and a subsequent stroke, but Brand committed suicide. It makes the themes much sadder.
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* TheWickedStage: It discusses this in the number "Life on the Wicked Stage." Ellie disillusions her female admirers that she's only had scandalous affairs on stage.
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1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by James Whale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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''Show Boat'' is a 1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by James Whale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
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* TemptingFate: Magnolia probably shouldn't have said "Gay just can't lose!"
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Certainly couldn't call a character "Gaylord" in the 21st century, much less have another character deliver lines like "Where's Gay? Where's my Gay?"
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* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: An irritated Queenie notes that Joe doesn't do much of anything on the showboat. He works as an usher but that's about it.
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* SassyBlackWoman: One of the few films of Hattie [=McDaniel=]'s career in which she didn't play a {{Mammy}}. Instead she's Queenie, Joe's sassy wife.
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* {{Blackface}}: A whole number centers around Magnolia giving a performance in blackface. Possibly justifiable in that this is TheMusicalMusical and blackface was indeed quite popular in that era.
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* ExactWords: Steve avoids a criminal charge of miscegenation with Julie by claiming to have "more than a drop of Negro blood in me".
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* ExactWords: Steve avoids a criminal charge of miscegenation with Julie by claiming to have "more than a drop of Negro blood in me". By cutting Julie's hand and swallowing a couple of drops of blood.
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* TitleDrop: The first line of dialogue in the 1936 film. "There's the show boat!"
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* AllPartOfTheShow: How Cap'n Andy plays off the fistfight between Steve and Pete over Julia.
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* ExactWords: Steve avoids a criminal charge [[spoiler: of miscegenation with Julie by claiming to have "more than a drop of Negro blood in me".]]
* HiddenDepths: Joe. A lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and [[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]
* HiddenDepths: Joe. A lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and [[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]
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* HiddenDepths: Joe. A lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and[[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]labor.
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* NiceGuy: Frank. [[spoiler: Of the three performing couples, he's the only one to stay with his partner, in spite of not being romantically linked. He also goes out of his way to help Magnolia get a job.]]
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* NiceGuy: Frank. [[spoiler: Of the three performing couples, he's the only one to stay with his partner, in spite of not being romantically linked. He also goes out of his way to help Magnolia get a job.]]
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* OrbitalShot: How Paul Robeson's performance of "Ol' Man River" starts in the 1936 film.
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* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Turns out [[spoiler: Gaylord]] killed a guy. The sheriff says that the jury figured the guy had it coming.
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* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Turns out [[spoiler: Gaylord]] Gaylord killed a guy. The sheriff says that the jury figured the guy had it coming.
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* SpoiledSweet: [[spoiler: Kim, born to finer things in life, is a genuinely nice person from childhood and beyond.]]
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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: An InUniverse example. Pete gets thrown off the boat for costing Captain Andy his two leading performers.
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* ExactWords: Steve avoids a criminal charge [[spoiler: of miscegenation with Julie by claiming to have "more than a drop of Negro blood in me".]]
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* HiddenDepths: Joe. Pretty much a A lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and [[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]
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1927 [[TheMusical musical]] by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on a 1926 book. It has been filmed in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The 1936 version was directed by James Whale, who is best known for directing Universal Horror films such as ''[[{{Film/Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'', and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.
The story starts with the ''Cotton Blossom'', a showboat with well-known actors arriving in a town in the late 1800s. Magnolia Hawks, the daughter of the showboat's owners, falls for a wandering gambler named [[HaveAGayOldTime Gaylord]] Ravenal. When the lead actors of the boat are forced to leave due to racial issues at the time (Julie being biracial), Magnolia and Gaylord take over as the leads, and become an instant hit.
The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Magnolia is said to have black hair in the book, but every stage and film portrayal has her as a blonde.
* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama
* CostumePorn: The film versions are loaded with GorgeousPeriodDress.
* EntitledToHaveYou: This is what leads to Julie being kicked off the ship--an entitled guy is mad that Julie doesn't want his gifts, so he goes to the sheriff to expose her mixed-race status.
* HiddenDepths: Joe. Pretty much a lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and [[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]
* LargeHam: Everyone on the stage, but especially the villain character.
* LazyBum: Joe, quite cheerfully, much to the annoyance of his hard-working wife.
* MinorCharacterMajorSong: "Old Man River," is, undoubtedly, the most known song from the production and generally the most remembered part.
* NiceGuy: Frank. [[spoiler: Of the three performing couples, he's the only one to stay with his partner, in spite of not being romantically linked. He also goes out of his way to help Magnolia get a job.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Parthy at times
* PassFail: [[spoiler: Julie is biracial.]]
* PrettyInMink: Some furs show up in the film versions, such as Magnolia wearing a white ermine cape at the end of the 1936 version.
* SceneryPorn: It's a very nice boat.
* ShowWithinAShow: Anything that shows up on the stage.
* SpoiledSweet: [[spoiler: Kim, born to finer things in life, is a genuinely nice person from childhood and beyond.]]
* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Turns out [[spoiler: Gaylord]] killed a guy. The sheriff says that the jury figured the guy had it coming.
* WhiteMaleLead: Subverted, although the lead is white and female. Of the white male characters, only two can be seen as being really good people {Frank and Cap'n Andy), while the rest do not come off as very nice people.
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The story starts with the ''Cotton Blossom'', a showboat with well-known actors arriving in a town in the late 1800s. Magnolia Hawks, the daughter of the showboat's owners, falls for a wandering gambler named [[HaveAGayOldTime Gaylord]] Ravenal. When the lead actors of the boat are forced to leave due to racial issues at the time (Julie being biracial), Magnolia and Gaylord take over as the leads, and become an instant hit.
The musical is possibly most known for Paul Robeson's rendition of "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 version.
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!!This work provides examples of
* AdaptationDyeJob: Magnolia is said to have black hair in the book, but every stage and film portrayal has her as a blonde.
* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama
* CostumePorn: The film versions are loaded with GorgeousPeriodDress.
* EntitledToHaveYou: This is what leads to Julie being kicked off the ship--an entitled guy is mad that Julie doesn't want his gifts, so he goes to the sheriff to expose her mixed-race status.
* HiddenDepths: Joe. Pretty much a lazy, teasing character, bordering on an old stereotype. But he does get the song that is often most remembered, and [[spoiler: is the one to fetch a doctor for Magnolia when she's in labour.]]
* LargeHam: Everyone on the stage, but especially the villain character.
* LazyBum: Joe, quite cheerfully, much to the annoyance of his hard-working wife.
* MinorCharacterMajorSong: "Old Man River," is, undoubtedly, the most known song from the production and generally the most remembered part.
* NiceGuy: Frank. [[spoiler: Of the three performing couples, he's the only one to stay with his partner, in spite of not being romantically linked. He also goes out of his way to help Magnolia get a job.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Parthy at times
* PassFail: [[spoiler: Julie is biracial.]]
* PrettyInMink: Some furs show up in the film versions, such as Magnolia wearing a white ermine cape at the end of the 1936 version.
* SceneryPorn: It's a very nice boat.
* ShowWithinAShow: Anything that shows up on the stage.
* SpoiledSweet: [[spoiler: Kim, born to finer things in life, is a genuinely nice person from childhood and beyond.]]
* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Turns out [[spoiler: Gaylord]] killed a guy. The sheriff says that the jury figured the guy had it coming.
* WhiteMaleLead: Subverted, although the lead is white and female. Of the white male characters, only two can be seen as being really good people {Frank and Cap'n Andy), while the rest do not come off as very nice people.
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