Ah Still Suits Me - Paul Robeson & Hattie McDaniel (Showboat) 1936

Ah Still Suits Me (I still suit me) - Paul Robeson and Hattie McDaniel (from the second version of Showboat - 1936)

Show Boat is a 1936 film based on the musical by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), which the team adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber.

This film version from Universal Pictures, which had in 1929 filmed a part-talkie version of Ferber's original novel, is, for the most part, a faithful adaptation of the famed Broadway musical version of the novel, and retains the interracial subplot so important to both the novel and the show. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with the 1929 film, and had long wanted to make an all-sound version of the hit musical. After plans to make this version with Russ Columbo as Ravenal fell through when Columbo was accidentally killed, shooting of the film was rescheduled, and the new version of Show Boat, with several members of the original Broadway cast, was released in 1936.

In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the film. Two of them were performed in spots previously reserved for songs from the stage production.

Cast:
Irene Dunne as Magnolia Hawks
Allan Jones as Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger as Cap'n Andy Hawks
Paul Robeson as Joe
Helen Morgan as Julie LaVerne
Helen Westley as Parthenia "Parthy" Hawks
Queenie Smith as Ellie May Chipley
Sammy White as Frank Schultz
Donald Cook as Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel as Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney as Rubber Face Smith
Marilyn Knowlden as Kim as a child
Sunnie O'Dea as Kim (at 16)
Arthur Hohl as Pete
Charles B. Middleton as Sheriff Ike Vallon
J. Farrell MacDonald as Windy McClain
Charles C. Wilson as Jim Green
Clarence Muse as Sam, Doorman at Trocadero

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ah
• Still
• Suits
• Me
• Paul
• Robeson
• Hattie
• McDaniel
• Showboat
• 1936

[simolionshane]

ultimate cute old couple... hattie was the original madea!!!

[Eu4279]

@simolionshane Thanks for watching. I had only seen her on Gone with the wind. I never suspected taht she could sing.

[friendsfamilyaccount]

I love that this was featured in this film. I love Hattie McDaniel's voice - "Sooner or Later" is great too, from SOTS. 

[Wagneryan]

As a pre-schooler in the early 1940's, I memorized the words to this song from a 78 RPM record at home. Mother was quite a fan of Mr. Robeson. Finding this video took me back to days I'd almost forgotten. Thanks a million for posting it.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

@Eu4279 Hattie had a legitimate singing career. In fact, apart from being the first African American to win an Oscar, she also has the distinction of being the first black woman to sing on the radio in the US.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

Love the little laugh Hattie gives at the end of the song 'cause Joe is right. No matter what he does *or doesn't do), she'll still love me.

[doriedsonbelodasilva]

Esses dois são mesmo irresistíveis. Ele é talvez o único cantor negro americano a se aventurar com sucesso pela música erudita com uma voz que, de tão perfeita, chega a me fazer entrar em pânico (da primeira vez que escutei Ol' man river, cheguei a pensar que era um anjo do apocalipse anunciando o fim do mundo). Ela, por sua vez, de tão gordinha e charmosa, chega a ser sexy! Não tenho como saber quem você é ou qual sua nacionalidade, mas agradeço do fundo do coração por se lembrar deles. Valeu!