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Poster for The Show of Shows

The Show of Shows (1929)

NR ★ 6.8/10 128 min Music United States English
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Description

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!

Top Cast

Frank Fay
Frank Fay Master of Ceremonies
Lloyd Hamilton
Lloyd Hamilton Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lupino Lane
Lupino Lane Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin
Ben Turpin Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sally O'Neil
Sally O'Neil Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day
Alice Day Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Marian Nixon
Marian Nixon Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

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