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Movie / The Show of Shows (1929)
The Show of Shows
Music

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!

1929-11-21
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Cast
Director
John G. Adolfi
Frank Fay as Master of Ceremonies
Lloyd Hamilton as Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lupino Lane as Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin as Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sally O'Neil as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Marian Nixon as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Myrna Loy as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Chester Morris as Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Jack Mulhall as Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Sôjin Kamiyama as Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Winnie Lightner as Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Nick Lucas as Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Dolores Costello as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Helene Costello as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Molly O'Day as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Marceline Day as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Sally Blane as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Loretta Young as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Armida as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Marion Byron as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Ann Sothern as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Alberta Vaughn as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Viola Dana as Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Shirley Mason as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Irène Bordoni as Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Rin-Tin-Tin as 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Sid Silvers as Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Johnny Arthur as Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Mary Astor as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
William Bakewell as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
John Barrymore as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Noah Beery as Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Monte Blue as Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Hobart Bosworth as Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Jack Buchanan as Jack (uncredited)
Georges Carpentier as Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Ethlyne Clair as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
William Collier Jr. as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Betty Compson as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Chester Conklin as Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin as Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
William Courtenay as The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Sally Eilers as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Louise Fazenda as 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Frances Lee as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Beatrice Lillie as Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Jacqueline Logan as Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Tully Marshall as Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Edna Murphy as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Carmel Myers as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Gertrude Olmstead as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
H.B. Warner as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Dorothy Coonan Wellman as (uncredited)
Alice White as Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Lois Wilson as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Grant Withers as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)