Show Boat (1951)

1951 • 107 minutes
4.6
36 reviews
83%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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It's an Oscar-nominated musical look at the lives and loves of a show boat theater troupe aboard an old-fashioned Mississippi riverboat. Featuring all-American classic songs by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, including "Ol' Man River." Starring Kathryn Grayson ("Kiss Me Kate"), Oscar-nominees Ava Gardner ("Mogambo," "The Night of the Iguana") and Agnus Moorehead (TV's "Bewitched," "Citizen Kane") and Howard Keel (TV's "Dallas"). Produced by Oscar-winner Arthur Freed ("An American in Paris," "Gigi").

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4.6
36 reviews
Kathleen Flatt
October 22, 2020
One of my all-time favorites. My dad and i have a lot of discussion over who was better - William Warfield or Paul Robeson - on Old Man River.
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Terri Mcbee
June 10, 2020
One of my favorite movies of all time. They just don't make them like this anymore.
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Paulette Jz
January 11, 2021
One of my all time favorite movie wish it would come on more on tcm lov lov this movie
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