The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows

The Show of Shows

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1929
2h 8m
5.5(2 votes)
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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!

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Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast & Crew

69 members
Acting

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies

Frank Fay
Acting

Lloyd Hamilton

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

Lloyd Hamilton
Acting

Lupino Lane

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

Lupino Lane
Acting

Ben Turpin

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Ben Turpin
Acting

Sally O'Neil

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

Sally O'Neil
Acting

Alice Day

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

Alice Day
Acting

Patsy Ruth Miller

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

Patsy Ruth Miller
Acting

Marian Nixon

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Marian Nixon
Acting

Lila Lee

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Lila Lee
Acting

Myrna Loy

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

Myrna Loy
Acting

Chester Morris

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

Chester Morris
Acting

Jack Mulhall

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

Jack Mulhall
Acting

Sôjin Kamiyama

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

Sôjin Kamiyama
Acting

Ted Lewis

Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

No Image
Acting

Winnie Lightner

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

Winnie Lightner
Acting

Nick Lucas

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

Nick Lucas
Acting

Dolores Costello

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Dolores Costello
Acting

Helene Costello

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Helene Costello
Acting

Molly O'Day

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Molly O'Day
Acting

Marceline Day

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Marceline Day
Acting

Sally Blane

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Sally Blane
Acting

Loretta Young

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Loretta Young
Acting

Armida

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

Armida
Acting

Lolita Vendrell

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

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Acting

Marion Byron

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Marion Byron
Acting

Ann Sothern

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

Ann Sothern
Acting

Alberta Vaughn

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Alberta Vaughn
Acting

Ada Mae Vaughn

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

No Image
Acting

Viola Dana

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

Viola Dana
Acting

Shirley Mason

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

Shirley Mason
Acting

Irène Bordoni

Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

Irène Bordoni
Acting

Rin-Tin-Tin

'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

No Image
Writing

Sid Silvers

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

Sid Silvers
Sound

Harry Akst

Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

No Image
Acting

Johnny Arthur

Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

Johnny Arthur
Acting

Mary Astor

Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

Mary Astor
Acting

William Bakewell

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

William Bakewell
Acting

John Barrymore

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

John Barrymore
Acting

Richard Barthelmess

Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess
Acting

Noah Beery

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

Noah Beery
Acting

Monte Blue

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

Monte Blue
Acting

Hobart Bosworth

Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

Hobart Bosworth
Acting

Jack Buchanan

Jack (uncredited)

Jack Buchanan
Acting

Joseph A. Burke

Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

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Acting

Georges Carpentier

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

Georges Carpentier
Acting

Ethlyne Clair

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

Ethlyne Clair
Acting

James Clemens

Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Ruth Clifford

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

Ruth Clifford
Acting

William Collier Jr.

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

William Collier Jr.
Acting

Betty Compson

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

Betty Compson
Acting

Chester Conklin

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

Chester Conklin
Acting

Heinie Conklin

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

Heinie Conklin
Acting

William Courtenay

The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

William Courtenay
Acting

Jack Curtis

Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Sally Eilers

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

Sally Eilers
Acting

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Acting

Louise Fazenda

'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

Louise Fazenda
Acting

Frances Lee

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

Frances Lee
Acting

Beatrice Lillie

Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

Beatrice Lillie
Acting

Jacqueline Logan

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

Jacqueline Logan
Acting

Tully Marshall

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

Tully Marshall
Acting

Edna Murphy

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

Edna Murphy
Acting

Carmel Myers

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

Carmel Myers
Acting

Gertrude Olmstead

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

Gertrude Olmstead
Acting

H.B. Warner

The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

H.B. Warner
Acting

Dorothy Coonan Wellman

(uncredited)

Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Acting

Alice White

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

Alice White
Acting

Lois Wilson

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

Lois Wilson
Acting

Grant Withers

Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)

Grant Withers

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