The Show of Shows
movie
Released November 21, 1929
Genres:
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!
Cast
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
