[Buddy Ebsen as Frank in "Show Boat".]

[Buddy Ebsen as Elmer Whipple in "Yokel Boy".]

[Buddy Ebsen as Tommy Turner, Nancy Coleman as Ellen Turner and Lawrence Fletcher as Joe Ferguson in "The Male Animal".]

[Carol Bruce as Julie and Charles Fredericks as Gaylord Ravenal in "Show Boat".]

[Ralph Dumke as Cap'n Andy in "Show Boat".]

[David Atkinson as Gaylord Ravenal, Gloria Hamilton as Magnolia and Andy Devine as Cap'n Andy in "Show Boat".]

[Carol Bruce as Julie, the role created by Helen Morgan, for "Show Boat".]

[Jo Sullivan as Magnolia, Joe E. Brown as Cap'n Andy and Robert Rounseville as Gaylord Ravenal in "Show Boat".]

[Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee and Yvonne Adair as Dorothy Shaw in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".]

[Frank Fay and Bert Wheeler in "Laugh Time".]

["Show Boat" theater still.]

[Jane Pickens as Frieda Hatzfeld, Charles Winninger as Dr. Walter Lessing and Dennis King as Bruno Mahler in "Music in the Air".]

[Betty Bruce as Bessie O'Cahane and Walter Burke as Danny O'Cahane in "Up in Central Park".]

[Brenda Forbes and Ray Bolger in "Three to Make Ready".]

[Paul Ford as Karl Kellenbach, Asia as Billie Mae Littlehorse and Susan Johnson as Glenda Swenson in "Whoop-Up".]

[Sammy White as Frank and Eva Puck as Ellie in "Show Boat".]

[Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Jean Lefevre and Jacques Legras in "La Plume de Ma Tante".]

[Burl Ives Cap'n Andy, Robert Rounseville as Gaylord Ravenal, Helena Bliss as Julie and Marjorie Gateson as Parthy Ann Hawks in "Show Boat".]

[Lilo as La Mome Pistache in "Can-Can".]

[Gracie Barrie and Bert Lahr in "The Show is On".]