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"I watched Show Boat (1951) because I was coming down with a cold, and the DVD was sitting beside the television. I am not an aficionado of Hollywood musicals—they are generally too glitzy and rah-rah-rah. But I often love the music from them, especially when done by good jazz musicians (e.g., Nancy Wilson singing “Happy Talk” from South Pacific). To my surprise, I liked Show Boat! The touchstone of any musical is—we should remember—good music, and Kern and Hammerstein provide “Ol’ Man River” sung powerfully by a big, black crewman (William Warfield). And the tune picked up by numerous jazz singers, “Can’t Stop Lovin’ That Man of Mine,” is sung beautifully and without affectation by the star on the river boat, Julie (played by Ava Gardner and dubbed by Annette Warren). Listening to her slow, careful delivery made me think how it would be impossible t "
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