We taped the 1936 Show Boat off of TCM and will be watching it tonight. Helen Morgan, Irene Dunne, Paul Robeson. A classic and a treat.
I’m a great fan of the French Connection. Reminds me of my college days in NYC!
Have you ever seen the late-1940s biopic of Jerome Kern, titled "Til The Clouds Roll By"? My wife found it on Netflix or Amazon recently and it was pretty good. It starts with a 20-minute condensed production of Show Boat and then flashes back to Kern's beginnings as a songwriter. The biopic part was a bit flat, but the production numbers sprinkled throughout make up for it. Lots of big-name performers appeared in it - never thought I'd ever see Sinatra singing "Ol' Man River".