CinemaOSMovie · 1929 · 2h 8m · NR

The Show of Shows

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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 byJohn G. Adolfi

Status: Released
Runtime: 2h 8m
Language: EN
Released: November 21, 1929
Budget: $850,000

Studios

The Vitaphone Corporation

Warner Bros. Pictures

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited

Starring

Frank Fay

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies

Lloyd Hamilton

Lloyd Hamilton

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

Lupino Lane

Lupino Lane

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

Ben Turpin

Ben Turpin

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

John Barrymore

John Barrymore

Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'

Sally O'Neil

Sally O'Neil

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

Alice Day

Alice Day

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

Patsy Ruth Miller

Patsy Ruth Miller

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

Marian Nixon

Marian Nixon

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Lila Lee

Lila Lee

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Creative team

Directed by: John G. Adolfi
Written by: Frank Fay
J. Keirn Brennan
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck

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