< Show Boat
Show Boat/YMMV
- Fair for Its Day: Focuses on racial issues in a rather sympathetic light, and Magnolia becomes a career woman after Gaylord abandons her, and raises her daughter well independently.
- Values Dissonance: Minstrel shows and a man telling his wife she shouldn't work and worry about the man's world. Considered pretty normal in the 1800's (and early 1900's) but rather shocking to a modern audience.
- The Woobie: Magnolia and Julie. Both of their husbands abandon them! Oh, and Julie ends up being alcoholic.
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