Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Show Boat (1951)

Show Boat (1951) - (Original Trailer)

Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River" in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical SHOW BOAT (1951) starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson.

Show Boat (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Just A Sample

Impresario Cap'n Andy (Joe E. Brown) promoting performers including Marge & Gower Champion, Ava Gardner (as "Julie") and Robert Sterling (as "Steve,"), early in the Freed Unit/George Sidney MGM production of Show Boat, 1951.

Show Boat (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Love-struck Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson) is counseled by worldly Julie (Ava Gardner, dubbed here by Annette Warren) who sings the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II standard, in the MGM 1951 version of Show Boat.

Show Boat (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Make Believe

Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson) prohibited from performing in her parents' show, has just met gambler Gaylord (Howard Keel), claiming to be an aspiring actor, as they join in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Make Believe, in Show Boat, 1951.