Factual error: Actual showboats were very rarely self-propelled. The engine and boilers needed to propel the vessel would have taken up the space needed for the stage, backstage area, and auditorium. As a result, they had to be towed everywhere by a towboat.
Show Boat (1951)
Directed by: George Sidney
Starring: Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson
Cap'n Andy Hawks: I guess you cut quite a figure before the footlights.
Gaylord Ravenal: Captain and Mrs. Hawks, allow me. Ravenal. Gaylord Revenal, of the Tennessee Ravenals.
Cap'n Andy Hawks: You've met my wife, I believe.
Gaylord Ravenal: A repeated pleasure, Mrs. Hawks.
Cap'n Andy Hawks: And my daughter, Magnolia.
Gaylord Ravenal: Only in make believe.
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