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To: P-40
Here are some more that you'll probably never see.

The original version of Showboat.

227 posted on 03/27/2007 3:06:07 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: HIDEK6

Which version of Showboat? The 1929 version or the 1936 James Whale film with Paul Robeson? The latter is great and is actually much less racist than the awful 1951 MGM version.


230 posted on 03/27/2007 3:15:16 PM PDT by Borges
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To: HIDEK6
The original version of Showboat.

If by the original you're referring to the one Irene Dunne starred in, it was extremely politically incorrect.

Especially when Dunne imitates the slow moving, foot shuffling and eye rolling negro stereotype. It would send the PC Nazis into hysteria.

You'll never see it again except on DVD/VHS.


235 posted on 03/27/2007 4:49:14 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (n)
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