The Show of Shows poster
Basic Info
Release: November 21, 1929
Rating: ⭐ 5.5/10 (2 votes)

The Show of Shows

1929 ⭐ 5.5/10 2 votes
Overview

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!

Genres
Music
Production Countries
  • United States of America
Spoken Languages
  • English en

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