113 minutes
5/17/1936
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Irene Dunne
as Magnolia Hawkes
Allan Jones
as Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger
as Cap'n Andy Hawkes
Paul Robeson
as Joe
Helen Morgan
as Julie LaVerne
Helen Westley
as Parthenia "Parthy" Hawkes
Queenie Smith
as Ellie May Chipley
Sammy White
as Frank Schultz
Donald Cook
as Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel
as Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney
as Rubber Face
Marilyn Knowlden
as Kim as a Child
Sunnie O'Dea
as Kim - at Sixteen
Arthur Hohl
as Pete
Charles Middleton
as Sheriff Ike Vallon
Clarence Muse
as Sam
E. E. Clive
as Sir Arthur
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
as Boonville man speaking film's first line
J. Farrell MacDonald
as Windy MacLaine
Maude Allen
Ricca Allen
William Alston
Harry Barris
May Beatty
Brooks Benedict
Barbara Bletcher
Mary Bovard
Donald Briggs
Betty Brown
Daisy Bufford
Ann Bupp
as (uncredited)
James P. Burtis
Eddy Chandler
E. E. Clive
Edmund Cobb
Maxine Cook
D'Arcy Corrigan
Grace Cunard
J. Gunnis Davis
Anna Demetrio
Helen Dickson
Jeanette Dickson
Elspeth Dudgeon
Helen Jerome Eddy
Kathleen Ellis
Al Ferguson
Stanley Fields
Flora Finch
Artye Folz
June Glory
Dorothy Granger
Marilyn Harris
Helen Hayward
Ernest Hilliard
Arthur Housman
Selmer Jackson
Matthew Jones
Jane Keckley
Isabel La Mal
Jack Latham
Frank Mayo
Martha Merrill
Monte Montague
Juanita Moore
Jack Mulhall
Harold Nelson
Georgia O'Dell
Dennis O'Keefe
Edward Peil Sr.
Barbara Pepper
Lee Phelps
LeRoy Prinz
George H. Reed
Tom Ricketts
Donna Mae Roberts
Louise Robinson
Betty Roche
Alma Ross
Tiny Sandford
as Zebe (uncredited)
Forrest Stanley
Mary Stewart
Frances Turham
Maidel Turner
Lois Verner
Harold Waldridge
Marguerite Warner
Billy Watson
Bobs Watson
Delmar Watson
Harry Watson
Lloyd Whitlock
Renee Whitney
Frank Whitson
Charles C. Wilson