The Show of Shows (1929)

6.6 November 21, 1929 2h 8m Released

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!

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Cast

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies
Lloyd Hamilton

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

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

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sally O'Neil

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

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

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

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Myrna Loy

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

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

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

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

Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

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