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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Showboat (disambiguation) (redirect from Show Boat (film))
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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Drifters is a 1929 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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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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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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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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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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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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the tragic honky-tonk girl Julie Laverne in the Broadway production of Show Boat (1926) The 26-year-old Morgan was enlisted to play the aging and “ravaged”...
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full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time...
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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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Disaster in the Atlantic for its home video release) is 1929 an all-talking sound British drama film directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont and starring...
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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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The Broadway Melody (redirect from The Broadway Melody of 1929)
also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture...
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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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(1926) Show Boat, containing some songs from the 1927 musical Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film and the first British sound film The Black...
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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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Jacqueline de Ribes (category 1929 births)
Jacqueline, Comtesse de Ribes (born 14 July 1929) is a French aristocrat, designer, fashion icon, businesswoman, producer and philanthropist. She has been...
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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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Happy Days is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which was the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere...
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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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Edna May Oliver (category American film actresses)
of the musical Show Boat. She reprised her role in the 1932 Broadway revival, but turned down the chance to play Parthy in the 1936 film version to play...
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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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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (section Films)
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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and 1936 film, she is not seen again after she resigns from the nightclub.)[citation needed] In the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on...
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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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