Show of Shows

11/21/1929

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2hrs 8min

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Music

STORY

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!

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Frank Fay
  • Lloyd Hamilton
  • Lupino Lane
  • Ben Turpin
  • Sally O'Neil

    Director

  • John G. Adolfi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • The Vitaphone Corporation
  • Warner Bros. Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English