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Show of Shows(1929)

NR11/21/1929 (US)Music2h 8m
55%

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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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Movie Cast

Frank Fay photo

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies

Lloyd Hamilton photo

Lloyd Hamilton

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

Lupino Lane photo

Lupino Lane

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

Ben Turpin photo

Ben Turpin

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Sally O'Neil photo

Sally O'Neil

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

Alice Day photo

Alice Day

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

Patsy Ruth Miller photo

Patsy Ruth Miller

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

Marian Nixon photo

Marian Nixon

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Lila Lee photo

Lila Lee

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Myrna Loy photo

Myrna Loy

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

Chester Morris photo

Chester Morris

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

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

Budget$850,000.00

RevenueNot Given

Production CompanyThe Vitaphone Corporation

Original LanguageEnglish

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