The Show of Shows
1929•NR•2h 8m•6.8•Released
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!
Director
John G. Adolfi
Writer
Frank Fay, J. Keirn Brennan
Budget
$1M
Languages
English
Studio
The Vitaphone Corporation
Cast
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
Production
Company
The Vitaphone Corporation
Company
Warner Bros. Pictures
Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
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