Show of Shows
Music
Release Date
November 21, 1929
Duration
128 min
Status
Released
Language
en
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!
Casts
Master of Ceremonies
Frank Fay
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lloyd Hamilton
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Lupino Lane
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Ben Turpin
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
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' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Marian Nixon
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Myrna Loy
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Chester Morris
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Jack Mulhall
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Sôjin Kamiyama
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Ted Lewis
Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Winnie Lightner
Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Nick Lucas
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
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 (as Mimi Vendrell)
Armida
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Lolita Vendrell
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Marion Byron
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Ann Sothern
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Alberta Vaughn
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Ada Mae Vaughn
Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Viola Dana
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Shirley Mason
Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Irène Bordoni
'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Rin-Tin-Tin
Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Sid Silvers
Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
Harry Akst
Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Johnny Arthur
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Mary Astor
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
William Bakewell
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
John Barrymore
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Noah Beery
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Hobart Bosworth
Jack (uncredited)
Jack Buchanan
Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
Joseph A. Burke
Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Georges Carpentier
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ethlyne Clair
Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
James Clemens
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
William Collier Jr.
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Betty Compson
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
William Courtenay
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Sally Eilers
Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Louise Fazenda
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Frances Lee
Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Beatrice Lillie
Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Jacqueline Logan
Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Tully Marshall
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Edna Murphy
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Carmel Myers
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Gertrude Olmstead
The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
(uncredited)
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Alice White
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Lois Wilson
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Grant Withers
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