This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
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Laura La Plante , Joseph Schildkraut , Emily Fitzroy , Otis Harlan , Alma Rubens , Jack McDonald
Harry A. Pollard
Universal Pictures
