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