"The Showboat Show of Shows!" 02 August 1953 Music 81 mins
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
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Dick Haymes as Beauregard Clemment III
Audrey Totter as Sally Jane Jackson
Cecil Kellaway as Thadeus Jackson
Connie Russell as Melissa Curry
Douglas Fowley as Humphrey Hepburn
Billy Daniels as William
Larry J. Blake as Dave Singer
Johnny Downs as Young Jack
Benny Payne as Benny
Cynthia Strother as Singer
Kay Strother as Singer
Bess Flowers as Riverboat Passenger (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Ben Fisher (uncredited)
Dick Gordon as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Norma Randall as Jenny - Blonde Entertainer (uncredited)
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