Show of Shows

Show of Shows (1929)

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!

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  • Release Date: 1929-11-21
  • Runtime: 2h 8min
  • Director: John G. Adolfi

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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

  • Winnie Lightner

    Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers

  • Nick Lucas

    Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

  • Dolores Costello

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Helene Costello

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Molly O'Day

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Marceline Day

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Sally Blane

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Loretta Young

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Armida

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)

  • Lolita Vendrell

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)

  • Marion Byron

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Ann Sothern

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)

  • Alberta Vaughn

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Ada Mae Vaughn

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Viola Dana

    Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

  • Shirley Mason

    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

  • Irène Bordoni

    Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

  • Rin-Tin-Tin

    'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

  • Sid Silvers

    Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number

  • Harry Akst

    Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

  • Johnny Arthur

    Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

  • Mary Astor

    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

  • William Bakewell

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • John Barrymore

    Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)

  • Richard Barthelmess

    Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

  • Noah Beery

    Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

  • Monte Blue

    Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

  • Hobart Bosworth

    Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Jack Buchanan

    Jack (uncredited)

  • Joseph A. Burke

    Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

  • Georges Carpentier

    Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

  • Ethlyne Clair

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

  • James Clemens

    Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

  • Ruth Clifford

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

  • William Collier Jr.

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • Betty Compson

    Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

  • Chester Conklin

    Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • Heinie Conklin

    Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)

  • William Courtenay

    The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Jack Curtis

    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

  • Sally Eilers

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • Louise Fazenda

    'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

  • Frances Lee

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

  • Beatrice Lillie

    Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

  • Jacqueline Logan

    Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)

  • Tully Marshall

    Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

  • Edna Murphy

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • Carmel Myers

    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

  • Gertrude Olmstead

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • H.B. Warner

    The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Dorothy Coonan Wellman

    (uncredited)

  • Alice White

    Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

  • Lois Wilson

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

  • Grant Withers

    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)

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