The Show of Shows

Duration: 128 min

Release date: 1929-11-21

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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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The Show of Shows

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as Master of Ceremonies

as Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")

as Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet

as Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

Patsy Ruth Miller

Patsy Ruth Miller

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

as Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers

as Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number

Sôjin Kamiyama

as Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)

as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

Winnie Lightner

Winnie Lightner

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

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

Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Helene Costello

Helene Costello

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

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

Lolita Vendrell

Lolita Vendrell

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

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

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

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

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

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

as Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

as 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

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

as Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

as Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

William Bakewell

William Bakewell

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

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

Richard Barthelmess

Richard Barthelmess

as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

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

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

Hobart Bosworth

Hobart Bosworth

as Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

as Jack (uncredited)

Joseph A. Burke

Joseph A. Burke

as Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

Georges Carpentier

Georges Carpentier

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

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

as Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

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

William Collier Jr.

William Collier Jr.

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

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

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

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

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

William Courtenay

William Courtenay

as The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

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

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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

as 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

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

Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Lillie

as Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

Jacqueline Logan

Jacqueline Logan

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

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

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

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

Gertrude Olmstead

Gertrude Olmstead

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

as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Dorothy Coonan Wellman

as (uncredited)

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

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

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

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl F. Zanuck

J. Keirn Brennan

J. Keirn Brennan

Harvey Cunningham

Harvey Cunningham

Director of Photography

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