Showboat

American musical

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  • Alberta Hunter
    In Alberta Hunter

    …the 1928–29 London production of Showboat with Paul Robeson. She returned to the United States in 1929, but the Great Depression eroded even the dubious security of vaudeville, and in 1933 she headed back to Europe, where work was more plentiful and racism less evident. In 1935 she played a…

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