The Show of Shows
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!
- 1929
- 2 h : 8 min
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6.6
Recommended
Starring
Frank Fay
- Master of Ceremonies
Lloyd Hamilton
- Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lupino Lane
- Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin
- Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sally O'Neil
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Marian Nixon
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Myrna Loy
- Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Chester Morris
- Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Jack Mulhall
- Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Sôjin Kamiyama
- Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Ted Lewis
- Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Winnie Lightner
- Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Nick Lucas
- Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Dolores Costello
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Helene Costello
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Molly O'Day
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Marceline Day
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Sally Blane
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Loretta Young
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Armida
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Lolita Vendrell
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Marion Byron
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Ann Sothern
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Alberta Vaughn
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Ada Mae Vaughn
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Viola Dana
- Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Shirley Mason
- Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Irène Bordoni
- Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Rin-Tin-Tin
- 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Sid Silvers
- Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Harry Akst
- Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
Johnny Arthur
- Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Mary Astor
- Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
William Bakewell
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
John Barrymore
- Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
- Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Noah Beery
- Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Monte Blue
- Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Hobart Bosworth
- Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Jack Buchanan
- Jack (uncredited)
Joseph A. Burke
- Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
Georges Carpentier
- Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Ethlyne Clair
- Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
James Clemens
- Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
- Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
William Collier Jr.
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Betty Compson
- Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
- Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
William Courtenay
- The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
- Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Sally Eilers
- Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Louise Fazenda
- 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Frances Lee
- Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Beatrice Lillie
- Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Jacqueline Logan
- Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Tully Marshall
- Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Edna Murphy
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Carmel Myers
- Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Gertrude Olmstead
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
- The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
- (uncredited)
Alice White
- Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Lois Wilson
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Grant Withers
- Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
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