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Show Boat

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Show Boat - Ava Gardner 's own voice - Can't Help Lovin' That Man

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Open HD | Show Boat | Warner Archive

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Show Boat The Musical - Trailer

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Showboat dancing scene with Marge and Gower Champion

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Show Boat (1936)

Show Boat is a musical in two acts, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Edna Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol' Man River", "Make Believe", and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man".