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