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The Show of Shows
1929, Nov 21
2h 8m
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!
Directed by
John G. Adolfi
Written by
J. Keirn Brennan, Frank Fay
William Collier Jr.
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Myrna Loy
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Beatrice Lillie
Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Tully Marshall
Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
William Bakewell
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Patsy Ruth Miller
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Monte Blue
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Alice White
Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Loretta Young
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Armida
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Louise Fazenda
'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Ben Turpin
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Hobart Bosworth
Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Frank Fay
Master of Ceremonies
Lois Wilson
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Ann Sothern
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Chester Morris
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Gertrude Olmstead
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Shirley Mason
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Heinie Conklin
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
Grant Withers
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Sally Eilers
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Marceline Day
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Noah Beery
Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Jack Buchanan
Jack (uncredited)
Molly O'Day
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Lila Lee
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sôjin Kamiyama
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Georges Carpentier
Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Mary Astor
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Marian Nixon
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Marion Byron
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Viola Dana
Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Sally Blane
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Chester Conklin
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Frances Lee
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
John Barrymore
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Helene Costello
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Jack Mulhall
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Johnny Arthur
Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Alice Day
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Dolores Costello
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Lloyd Hamilton
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Nick Lucas
Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Jack Curtis
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
(uncredited)
Jacqueline Logan
Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
William Courtenay
The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Irène Bordoni
Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Alberta Vaughn
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Lupino Lane
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Betty Compson
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Carmel Myers
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ethlyne Clair
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Edna Murphy
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Winnie Lightner
Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Sally O'Neil
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Ted Lewis
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Lolita Vendrell
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Ada Mae Vaughn
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Rin-Tin-Tin
'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Joseph A. Burke
Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
James Clemens
Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
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