Julie is the woman, and Steve is the man. The Sheriff enters and announces that there is a case of miscegenation on board, a negro woman married to a white man, which is illegal. But when Julie and Steve hear that the sheriff is coming to arrest them, Steve takes a sewing pin, pricks Julie's finger, and sucks blood from it. That night, during the performance of an olio on the show boat, Pete shows up with the town sheriff. However, he meets Magnolia, the captain's 18-year-old daughter, and the two are instantly smitten. Riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal has gambled away a boat ticket, so he drops by the Cotton Blossom pretending to be an actor so that he can get passage on the boat, but is rejected. But Pete knows a dark secret about Julie, and he runs off to tell the local sheriff. Cap'n Andy pretends to the assembled crowd that the two were really previewing a scene from one of the boat's melodramas. When the Cotton Blossom, Cap'n Andy Hawks's show boat, arrives in a Mississippi town to give a performance, a fistfight breaks out between leading man Steve Baker and Pete, the boat's engineer who has been making passes at Steve's wife, leading lady Julie La Verne. The 1951 Show Boat was the most financially successful of the film adaptations of the show: one of MGM's most popular musicals, it was the second-highest grossing film of that year. Unlike the 1936 film, none of the members of the original Broadway cast of the show appeared in this version. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, William Warfield, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead and Leif Erickson. The film stars Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, with Joe E. It was made by MGM, adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney.įilmed previously in 1929 and in 1936, this third adaptation of Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical MGM lavish style, while the basic plot remains unchanged. Show Boat is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy-drama film, based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), and the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber.
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