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    Show Boat is a 1929 American pre-Code sound part-talkie romantic drama film based on the 1926 novel Show Boat by Edna Ferber. The film initially did not...
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  • Freed and directed by George Sidney. Filmed previously in 1929 and in 1936, this third adaptation of Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical...
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  • Pictures had filmed the part-talkie Show Boat which was released in 1929. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with that film, and wanted...
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    closed at the end of August 2016. Show Boat has been adapted for film three times, and for television once. 1929 Show Boat. Universal. Released in silent...
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    Mississippi River. Show Boat was adapted as a Broadway musical in 1927 by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Three films followed: a 1929 version that depended...
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  • musical Show Boat (1929 film), adapted by Charles Kenyon and directed by Harry A. Pollard, based on the Ferber novel Maxwell House Show Boat, a program...
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  • Bill (song) (redirect from Bill (Show Boat))
    once in Show Boat and never reprised, it became one of the musical's most famous. On film, Helen Morgan sang "Bill" both in the prologue to the 1929 part-talkie...
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  • overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1929 released films by box office...
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    moving parts. For Quint's boat, the Orca, Alves and his team constructed two identical 42-foot models for the film. The second boat, dubbed Orca II, had no...
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  • Drifters (1929) is silent documentary film by John Grierson, his first and only personal film. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery...
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    Helen Morgan (singer) (category American film actresses)
    musical Show Boat in 1927, as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 (prologue...
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  • Academy Award winners guested on The Love Boat, including the Best Actress from the first awards ceremony in 1929, Janet Gaynor. In the final season, a troupe...
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    10 best films of 1929. This was Morgan's first all-talking film. She had appeared in the sound prologue to the part-talkie version of Show Boat, released...
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  • the film. The song was "Moanin' Low," composed by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Howard Dietz, introduced on Broadway in the 1929 revue The Little Show by...
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    Show Boat (1926), which was adapted into the legendary Broadway musical Show Boat (1927); her second was Cimarron (1929), which was adapted to film twice...
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  • part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time a variety...
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    before feature films. In 1929, some theaters began to host the "Mickey Mouse Club", a children's program which would exclusively show Mickey's cartoons...
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  • Atlantic (1929) (also known as Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic for its home video release) is an all-talking sound British drama film directed and produced...
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  • The film was written and produced by Lamar Trotti and directed by Walter Lang. The title song, "With a Song in My Heart" (Rodgers and Hart, 1929), became...
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  • appeared in supporting roles. Epic in scope, spanning forty years from 1889 to 1929, Cimarron was RKO's most expensive production up to that date, as well as...
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  • "Foley artists". He worked on pictures such as Melody of Love (1928), Show Boat (1929), Dat Ol' Ribber, Dracula (1931), Spartacus (1960), and Operation Petticoat...
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    Theatre Hall of Fame. Ziegfeld appears in a sound prologue to the 1929 film, Show Boat—a part-talkie based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel, not the popular...
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  • Come and Get It is a 1936 American lumberjack drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is...
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    Cimarron is a 1960 American epic Western film based on the 1930 Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. The film stars Glenn Ford and Maria Schell and was directed...
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  • Stage Door (redirect from Stage Door (film))
    Stage Door is a 1937 American drama film directed by Gregory La Cava. Adapted from the 1936 play of the same name, it tells the story of several would-be...
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    This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1920–1929, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is...
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  • Buddy's Show Boat is a 1933 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Earl Duvall. The short was released on December 9, 1933, and stars Buddy, the...
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    The Royal Family (play) (category American plays adapted into films)
    in 1930 by Herman Mankiewicz for the film The Royal Family of Broadway, released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by George Cukor and Cyril...
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  • Cimarron (novel) (category American novels adapted into films)
    written. So Big was released as a film the same year it was published as a novel, and adaptations of Gigolo and Show Boat also followed. With the advent...
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  • injury. Red Cliff (2008/2009). While filming a scene in which a small boat was set on fire and was to ram a larger boat, the fire spread quickly out of control...
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