Yapım :1951 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Drama Süre : 107 dakika IMDB Puan : 7.1/10 IMDB ID: tt0044030
Oyuncular Kathryn Grayson - Magnolia Hawks
Ava Gardner - Julie LaVerne
Howard Keel - Gaylord Ravenal
Joe E. Brown - Cap'n Andy Hawks
Marge Champion - Ellie May Shipley
Gower Champion - Frank Schultz
Robert Sterling - Stephen Baker
Agnes Moorehead - Parthy Hawks
Leif Erickson - Pete (as Lief Erickson in some prints)
William Warfield - Joe
Bilgi :The "Cotton Blossom", owned by the Hawk family, is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. Julie Laverne and her husband are the stars of the show. After, a snitch on board calls the local police that Julie (who's half- African-American) is married to a whiteman, they are forced to leave the show boat. The reason being, that down south interracial marriages are forbidden. Magnolia Hawk, Captain Andy Hawks daughter, becomes the new show boat attraction and her leading man is Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. The two instantly fall in love, and marry, without Parthy Hawks approval. Magnolia and Gaylord leave the, "Cotton Blossom", for a whirl wind honeymoon and being to live in a Pl: fantasy world. Magnolia soon faces reality quickly, that gambling means more to Gaylord than anything else. Magnolia confront Gaylord and after he gambles away their fortune he leaves her - not knowing she is pregnant. Magnolia is left penniless and pregnant, and is left to fend for herself, and make a new start.When Julie la Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom (their marriage is illegal because of Julie's mixed blood),their places are taken by Magnolia Hawks, the Captain's daughter, and Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago, where they live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke Gay feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
