Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive, daughter of Cap'n Andy Hawks, the genial proprietor of a show boat that cruises the Missisippi, and...( read more
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this, fpr the most part, is the quintessential version of the kern-hammerstein classic. the end is what keeps it from being absolutely brilliant. irene dunne and allan jones sing the songs with style and emotion; helen morgan caps off her screen career recreating the role that m...( read more)
Much better than the 1951 re-make, though that is also a commendable film. It's always great to see Allan Jones outside of the context of the Marx Brothers, and Paul Robeson carries the film with a chilling performance of "Old Man River." This is in many ways a film before its ...( read more)
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