Connections

A brief shot of children running toward the river landing as the show boat arrives was shown in the 1936 film version.

Several moments from this film are shown.

This features clips pf Tess Gardella, Helen Morgan and Jules Bledsoe from the prologue to the film.

When Lucy is in the kitchen complaining to Ricky about how hard she has to work, lugging the laundry up and down the stairs in the basket, she is alluding to the popular song "Old Man River," from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical.

Anybodys speaks the line "What a bunch of Old Man Rivers! They must know somethin' and they don't say nothin'!"

Hawkeye says, "Can't help lovin' that man of mine."