Show Boat (1936) - PART 2

"After the Ball" we are gliding into Part 2 of our review on Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's 1936 film Show Boat. Starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Queenie Smith, Sammy White, Donald Cook, and the legendary Hattie McDaniel.. This film marks review # 11 of the AFI list of Greatest Movie Musicals of all time."I can hear Kelli O'Hara singing the hell out of this song 'Bill'... it just screams her style" "There's something about Hollywood Makeup that when aging up a character sometimes they just go overboard. I mean Gaylord looked 80. ""We just are left hungry for MORE on these characters. It makes you wonder how much they really cut out of the book or even the stage musical. "