

The Show of Shows
1929 Directed by John G. AdolfiNow 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!

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
Director
...........................................................John G. Adolfi
Producer
...........................................................Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer
...........................................................J. Keirn Brennan
Frank Fay
Sound Engineer
...........................................................Harvey Cunningham
Director of Photography
...........................................................Barney McGill
Production Companies
...................................................The Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries
........................................................United States of America
Spoken Languages
....................................................English
Genres
....................................................Music
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