Show of Shows
- Released on
- Runtime
- 128 mins
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!
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!
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
Director
- John G. Adolfi
Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
