Show Boat

At the end of the Nineteenth century, the show boat "Cotton Blossom" owned by Captain Andy Hawks flies along the rivers in the South of North America with the leads stars Julie LaVerne and her husband Stephen Baker and musical entertainment. They are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom because their marriage is illegal (Julie's mixed blood and down in the South interracial marriages are forbidden). Their places are taken by Magnolia Hawks, the Captain's daughter, and Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago, where they live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke Gay feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant. She struggles to survive, returns to her father's boat and business and raises her daughter with her parents. Years later, Julie accidentally meets Gaylord and tells him about his daughter.