Showboat - Kathryn Grayson - Ava Gardner - Howard Keel - Joe E Brown - Marge Champion - Gower Champion - Agnes Moorehead - William Warfield - 1951

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I took this picture a few years ago from the lower level of the Hungry Bear Restaurant in Critter Country at Disneyland. This is one of my favorite areas of the park. Its always quiet, shady, peaceful with the ever present ducks and feral cats. This is a single exposure shot (not an HDR) that was enhanced with Topaz Adjust.

'Showboat', 1951 - Starring Kathryn Grayson - The 'Cotton Blossom' owned by the Hawks family, is the grand old showboat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. And Julie Laverne & her husband are the super stars of the show. Julie is half African American & married to a white man. A snitch on board calls the police & they are forced to leave the boat. In that part of the south inter racial marriages were forbidden - Enter, Magnolia Hawks, the new main attraction.

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In the following blog post, Professor Todd Decker examines four of the early typescripts of Show Boat that can be studied at the Library fo…