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