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𝘼 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖 1935

The 1936 film version of James Whale’s SHOW BOAT opened at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall #OnThisDay This production was the first all-sound, fully musical film adaptation of the 1927 stage musical.

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Have you seen A Night at the Opera (1935)?

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THE MARX BROTHERS AND ALLAN JONES IN A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)

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(thank you to @zagreus for a correction on a previous post!)

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Show Boat premiered in New York City on 14 May 1936.

Based on the 1927 musical (written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) - which was based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel - the film was scheduled to begin production in 1934 starring Russ Columbo as Gaylord Ravenal, but was cancelled when Columbo was killed in a gunshot accident by his friend Lansing Brown Jr. Allan Jones was cast to replace Columbo and director James Whale cast many members of various productions, including Irene Dunne (who had been in a touring production in 1929), Helen Morgan, Sammy White, and Charles Winninger (who had been in the original Broadway production of 1927), and Paul Robeson (who had been in the London production of 1928 and the Broadway production of 1932).

The film was a critical and commercial success, but fell out of public awareness when MGM bought the rights (and all prints) from Universal in the early 1940s, with the intent of making a remake (which they did not do until 1950). It was not shown again publicly until 1976.