- Capt. Andy Hawks: [intertitles]
- [immediately after Kim is born, to the townspeople leaving the boat]
- Capt. Andy Hawks: Another leading lady!
- Intertitle: Herald of summer - the whistle of the show boat just around the bend.
- Magnolia Hawks as a Child: [intertitle]
- [marching in the show boat parade]
- Magnolia Hawks as a Child: Mama's going to paddle me, but I don't care.
- Julie LaVerne [prologue]: [singing] I love him, because he's - I don't know - because he's just my Bill!
- Joe [prologue]: [singing] You an' me,/ We sweat and strain,/ Body all achin' and wracked with pain!/ "Tote dat barge!/ Lift dat bale!"/ Git a little drunk,/ And yuh lands in jail!/ Ah gits weary/ An' sick o' tryin',/ Ah'm tired o' livin',/ An' scared o' dyin', / But Ol' Man River,/ He jes' keeps rollin' along!
- [last lines]
- Joe: [singing, dubbed by Jules Bledsoe] Look down, look down that lonesome road/ before you travel on./ Look up, look up, and see your Maker,/ For Gabriel blows his horn. /Weary totin' such a load,/ Trudgin' down that lonesome road,/ Look down, look down that lonesome road/ Before you travel on.
- Parthenia Ann Hawks: [to the child Magnolia]
- [intertitle]
- Parthenia Ann Hawks: Maggie Hawks, I'm going to paddle you good!
- Opening Title: [as "Ol' Man River" is played by an orchestra on the soundtrack] The mighty Mississippi - deep and moody.
- Parthenia Ann Hawks: I wired for a new leading man and there he is.
- Capt. Andy Hawks: He's not actor - he's a gentleman!
- Parthenia Ann Hawks: He's got a crack in his shoe. He's an actor!
- Intertitle: The course of human lives may be changed in a day, but the river flows on - relentless, eternal.
- Parthenia Ann Hawks: Julie Dozier, I'm not going to have my daughter corrupted by a show-boat trollop like you!
- Magnolia: Where did you get that money?
- Gaylord Ravenal: What's the difference? It's money, isn't it?
- Magnolia: You got it from that Chilson woman?
- Gaylord Ravenal: Well, I suppose so.
- Magnolia: How could you? For shame! The disgrace! The humiliation!