The Idea of You
Music · Comedy
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Film / 1936
Show Boat
Directed by
James Whale
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
The story
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Cast
Irene DunneMagnolia Hawkes
Allan JonesGaylord Ravenal
Charles WinningerCap'n Andy Hawkes
Paul RobesonJoe
Helen MorganJulie LaVerne
Helen WestleyParthenia "Parthy" Hawkes
Queenie SmithEllie May Chipley
Sammy WhiteFrank Schultz
Donald CookSteve Baker
Hattie McDanielQueenie
Francis X. MahoneyRubber Face
Marilyn KnowldenKim as a Child
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Sunnie O'DeaKim - at Sixteen
Arthur HohlPete
Charles MiddletonSheriff Ike Vallon
Clarence MuseSam
E. E. CliveSir Arthur
Eddie 'Rochester' AndersonBoonville man speaking film's first line
J. Farrell MacDonaldWindy MacLaine
Maude Allen
Ricca Allen
William Alston
Harry Barris
May Beatty
Brooks Benedict
Barbara Bletcher
Mary Bovard
Donald Briggs
Betty Brown
Daisy Bufford
Ann Bupp(uncredited)
James P. Burtis
Eddy Chandler
Edmund Cobb
Maxine Cook
D'Arcy Corrigan
Grace Cunard
J. Gunnis Davis
Anna Demetrio
Helen Dickson
Jeanette Dickson
Elspeth Dudgeon
Helen Jerome Eddy
Kathleen Ellis
Al Ferguson
Stanley Fields
Flora Finch
Artye Folz
June Glory
Dorothy Granger
Marilyn Harris
Helen Hayward
Ernest Hilliard
Arthur Housman
Selmer Jackson
Matthew Jones
Jane Keckley
Isabel La Mal
Jack Latham
Frank Mayo
Martha Merrill
Monte Montague
Juanita Moore
Jack Mulhall
Harold Nelson
Georgia O'Dell
Dennis O'Keefe
Edward Peil Sr.
Barbara Pepper
Lee Phelps
LeRoy Prinz
George H. Reed
Tom Ricketts
Donna Mae Roberts
Louise Robinson
Betty Roche
Alma Ross
Tiny SandfordZebe (uncredited)
Forrest Stanley
Mary Stewart
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