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Show of Shows (1929) [NR]

Release Date:
November 21, 1929

Original Title:
Show of Shows

Alternate Titles:
Show of Shows
The Show of Shows

Genres:
Music

Production Companies:
The Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 128

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Performers

  • Frank Fay
    Master of Ceremonies
  • Lloyd Hamilton
    Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number"
    (segment "Recitations")
    Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
  • Lupino Lane
    Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
    'Tramp' Ballet
  • Ben Turpin
    Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
  • Sally O'Neil
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
  • Alice Day
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
  • Patsy Ruth Miller
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
  • Marian Nixon
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
  • Lila Lee
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
  • Myrna Loy
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
  • Chester Morris
    Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
  • Jack Mulhall
    Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
  • Sôjin Kamiyama
    Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
  • Ted Lewis
    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
  • Winnie Lightner
    Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
  • Nick Lucas
    Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
  • Dolores Costello
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Helene Costello
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Molly O'Day
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Marceline Day
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Sally Blane
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Loretta Young
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Armida
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
  • Lolita Vendrell
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
  • Marion Byron
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Ann Sothern
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
  • Alberta Vaughn
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Ada Mae Vaughn
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
  • Viola Dana
    Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
  • Shirley Mason
    Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
  • Irène Bordoni
    Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
  • Rin-Tin-Tin
    'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
  • Sid Silvers
    Al Jolson Impersonator
    Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
  • Harry Akst
    Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
  • Johnny Arthur
    Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
  • Mary Astor
    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
  • William Bakewell
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • John Barrymore
    Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
  • Richard Barthelmess
    Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
  • Noah Beery
    Performer in "The Pirate" Number
    Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
  • Monte Blue
    Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
  • Hobart Bosworth
    Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
  • Jack Buchanan
    Jack (uncredited)
  • Joseph A. Burke
    Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
  • Georges Carpentier
    Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
  • Ethlyne Clair
    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
  • James Clemens
    Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
  • Ruth Clifford
    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
  • William Collier Jr.
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • Betty Compson
    Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
  • Chester Conklin
    Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • Heinie Conklin
    Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
  • William Courtenay
    The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
  • Jack Curtis
    Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
  • Sally Eilers
    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • Louise Fazenda
    'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
  • Frances Lee
    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
  • Beatrice Lillie
    Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
  • Jacqueline Logan
    Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
  • Tully Marshall
    Performer in "The Pirate"
    Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
  • Edna Murphy
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • Carmel Myers
    Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
  • Gertrude Olmstead
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • H.B. Warner
    The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
  • Dorothy Coonan Wellman
    (uncredited)
  • Alice White
    Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
  • Lois Wilson
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
  • Grant Withers
    Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)

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Production

Director:
John G. Adolfi

Director of Photography:
Barney McGill

Producer:
Darryl F. Zanuck

Sound Engineer:
Harvey Cunningham

Writer:
J. Keirn Brennan
Frank Fay

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