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The Show of Shows

1929 · 2h 8m · Music

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!

Cast

• Frank Fay as Master of Ceremonies
• Lloyd Hamilton as Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
• Lupino Lane as Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
• Ben Turpin as Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Sally O'Neil as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
• Alice Day as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
• Patsy Ruth Miller as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
• Marian Nixon as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Lila Lee as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Myrna Loy as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
• Chester Morris as Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
• Jack Mulhall as Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number

Details

Director

John G. Adolfi

Released

November 21, 1929

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Music

Studio

The Vitaphone Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.6 / 10 from 5 votes