Movie Description
Show of Shows
(1929)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!
Featured Crew
- Director : John G. Adolfi
- Producer : Darryl F. Zanuck
- Writer : J. Keirn Brennan,Frank Fay
- Cast : Frank Fay,Lloyd Hamilton,Lupino Lane,Ben Turpin,Sally O'Neil,Alice Day,Patsy Ruth Miller,Marian Nixon,Lila Lee,Myrna Loy,Chester Morris,Jack Mulhall,Sôjin Kamiyama,Ted Lewis,Winnie Lightner,Nick Lucas,Dolores Costello,Helene Costello,Molly O'Day,Marceline Day,Sally Blane,Loretta Young,Armida,Lolita Vendrell,Marion Byron,Ann Sothern,Alberta Vaughn,Ada Mae Vaughn,Viola Dana,Shirley Mason,Irène Bordoni,Rin-Tin-Tin,Sid Silvers,Harry Akst,Johnny Arthur,Mary Astor,William Bakewell,John Barrymore,Richard Barthelmess,Noah Beery,Monte Blue,Hobart Bosworth,Jack Buchanan,Joseph A. Burke,Georges Carpentier,Ethlyne Clair,James Clemens,Ruth Clifford,William Collier Jr.,Betty Compson,Chester Conklin,Heinie Conklin,William Courtenay,Jack Curtis,Sally Eilers,Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,Louise Fazenda,Frances Lee,Beatrice Lillie,Jacqueline Logan,Tully Marshall,Edna Murphy,Carmel Myers,Gertrude Olmstead,H.B. Warner,Dorothy Coonan Wellman,Alice White,Lois Wilson,Grant Withers
Cast
Master of Ceremonies
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Jack (uncredited)
Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Posters
Recommendations
Pennies
7
Main Theme
6.1
Return Ticket
6.88
Drained
7.8
RED
5.1
12
5.5
Star!
6.9
Man
7.333
Gasping for Air
6.667
Cosmic Sex
6.3
Star
6.1
Super
6.5
Star
6.3
Facts
Original TitleShow of Shows
Status Released
Release Information
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1929-11-21
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 02h 08m
Budget₹ 850000
Production CompaniesThe Vitaphone Corporation,Warner Bros. Pictures
Genres
- Music
