The Show of Shows (1929)
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!
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- John G. Adolfi
Writing:
- Frank Fay
- J. Keirn Brennan
Stars:
Release Date: 1929-11-21
5.5/10
5.5/10
- Country: US
- Language: English
- Runtime: 128
- Budget: $850,000
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Master of Ceremonies
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Jack (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
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
Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
