Film
The Show of Shows
1929Directed by John G. Adolfi
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- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
About The Show of Shows
- Music
Synopsis
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!
- Director
- John G. Adolfi
- Writers
- J. Keirn Brennan
- Frank Fay
Principal cast
In billing order- Frank FayMaster of Ceremonies
- Lloyd HamiltonHansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
- Lupino LaneStreet Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
- Ben TurpinWaiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
- Sally O'NeilPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
- Alice DayPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
