Show of Shows

Show of Shows (1929)


  • Genre: Music
  • Release Date: 1929-11-21
  • User Rating: 5.5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 8min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: The Vitaphone Corporation
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: John G. Adolfi
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Summary

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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  • 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

  • Sôjin Kamiyama

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

  • Ted Lewis

    as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

  • Winnie Lightner

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

  • Nick Lucas

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

  • Dolores Costello

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Helene Costello

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Molly O'Day

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Marceline Day

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Sally Blane

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Loretta Young

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Armida

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

  • Lolita Vendrell

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

  • Marion Byron

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Ann Sothern

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

  • Alberta Vaughn

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Ada Mae Vaughn

    as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

  • Viola Dana

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

  • Shirley Mason

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

  • Irène Bordoni

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

  • Rin-Tin-Tin

    as 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

  • Sid Silvers

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

  • Harry Akst

    as Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

  • Johnny Arthur

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

  • Mary Astor

    as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

  • William Bakewell

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

  • John Barrymore

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

  • Richard Barthelmess

    as Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

  • Noah Beery

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

  • Monte Blue

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

  • Hobart Bosworth

    as Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Jack Buchanan

    as Jack (uncredited)

  • Joseph A. Burke

    as Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

  • Georges Carpentier

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

  • Ethlyne Clair

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

  • James Clemens

    as Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

  • Ruth Clifford

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

  • William Collier Jr.

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

  • Betty Compson

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

  • Chester Conklin

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

  • Heinie Conklin

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

  • William Courtenay

    as The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Jack Curtis

    as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

  • Sally Eilers

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

  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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

  • Louise Fazenda

    as 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

  • Frances Lee

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

  • Beatrice Lillie

    as Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

  • Jacqueline Logan

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

  • Tully Marshall

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

  • Edna Murphy

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

  • Carmel Myers

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

  • Gertrude Olmstead

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

  • H.B. Warner

    as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

  • Dorothy Coonan Wellman

    as (uncredited)

  • Alice White

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

  • Lois Wilson

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

  • Grant Withers

    as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Directing John G. Adolfi Director
Writing J. Keirn Brennan Writer
Writing Frank Fay Writer
Production Darryl F. Zanuck Producer
Sound Harvey Cunningham Sound Engineer
Camera Barney McGill Director of Photography

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