This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Cast
Laura La Plante
Magnolia
Joseph Schildkraut
Gaylord Ravenal
Emily Fitzroy
Parthenia Ann Hawks
Otis Harlan
Capt. Andy Hawks
Alma Rubens
Julie Dozier
Jack McDonald
Windy
Jane La Verne
Magnolia as Child / Kim
Neely Edwards
Schultzy
Elise Bartlett
Elly
Stepin Fetchit
Joe
Jules Bledsoe
Joe [prologue]
Tess Gardella
Queenie [prologue]
Carl Laemmle
Himself [prologue]
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne [prologue]
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Himself [prologue]
Max Asher
Utility Man
Matthew Beard
Child
George Chesebro
Steve Baker
Jim Coleman
Stagehand
Claude Collins
Unknown
Carl Herlinger
Wheelsman (uncredited)
Harry Holden
Means
Gertrude Howard
Queenie
Theodore Lorch
Frank
Ralph Yearsley
The Killer
Crew
Harry A. Pollard
Director, Dialogue Editor
Edna Ferber
Writer
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Gilbert Warrenton
Director of Photography
Robert Ross
Assistant Director
Johanna Mathieson
Costume Design
Jack Foley
Foley Artist
Joseph Cherniavsky
Music
Jerome Kern
Songs
Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyricist
Tom Reed
Dialogue Editor
Edward J. Montaigne
Story Supervisor
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
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