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    The Show of Shows

    128'

    1929-11-21

    6.6

    Music

    Overview:

    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!

    DirectingJohn G. AdolfiWritingJ. Keirn Brennan

    Cast

    1

    Master of Ceremonies

    Frank Fay

    1

    Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")

    Lloyd Hamilton

    1

    Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet

    Lupino Lane

    1

    Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

    Ben Turpin

    1

    Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'

    John Barrymore

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

    Sally O'Neil

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

    Alice Day

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers

    Patsy Ruth Miller

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

    Marian Nixon

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

    Lila Lee

    1

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

    Myrna Loy

    1

    Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers

    Chester Morris

    1

    Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number

    Jack Mulhall

    1

    Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)

    Sôjin Kamiyama

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

    Ted Lewis

    1

    Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers

    Winnie Lightner

    1

    Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

    Nick Lucas

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Dolores Costello

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Helene Costello

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Molly O'Day

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Marceline Day

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Sally Blane

    2

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Loretta Young

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)

    Armida

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)

    Lolita Vendrell

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Marion Byron

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)

    Ann Sothern

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Alberta Vaughn

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

    Ada Mae Vaughn

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

    Viola Dana

    1

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

    Shirley Mason

    1

    Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

    Irène Bordoni

    1

    'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

    Rin-Tin-Tin

    1

    Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number

    Sid Silvers

    1

    Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

    Harry Akst

    1

    Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

    Johnny Arthur

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

    Mary Astor

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    William Bakewell

    1

    Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

    Richard Barthelmess

    1

    Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

    Noah Beery

    1

    Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

    Monte Blue

    1

    Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

    Hobart Bosworth

    1

    Jack (uncredited)

    Jack Buchanan

    1

    Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

    Joseph A. Burke

    1

    Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

    Georges Carpentier

    1

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

    Ethlyne Clair

    1

    Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

    James Clemens

    1

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

    Ruth Clifford

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    William Collier Jr.

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

    Betty Compson

    1

    Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    Chester Conklin

    1

    Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)

    Heinie Conklin

    1

    The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

    William Courtenay

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

    Jack Curtis

    1

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

    Sally Eilers

    1

    Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    1

    'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

    Louise Fazenda

    1

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

    Frances Lee

    1

    Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

    Beatrice Lillie

    1

    Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)

    Jacqueline Logan

    1

    Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

    Tully Marshall

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    Edna Murphy

    1

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

    Carmel Myers

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    Gertrude Olmstead

    1

    The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

    H.B. Warner

    1

    (uncredited)

    Dorothy Coonan Wellman

    1

    Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

    Alice White

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

    Lois Wilson

    1

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)

    Grant Withers

    Details:

    • Budget: 850000
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. The Vitaphone Corporation
      2. Warner Bros. Pictures
    • Vote Count: 5
    • Popularity: 0.5988
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:The Show of Shows

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