Show Boat

by James Whale, Edna Ferber, Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein

$45 · Offered by Royal Books

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1936 / Circa 1970s. Vintage reference photo from a circa 1970s re-release of the 1936 film, showing actor Paul Robeson. With a provenance stamp to the verso crediting the Lester Glassner collection and several manuscript ink annotations noting Robeson's name and the film title. Based on the 1927 musical, which was in turn based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. The daughter of the captain of the Cotton Blossom, a

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