The Show of Shows
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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!
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 21, 1929
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Frank Fay,Lloyd Hamilton,Lupino Lane,Ben Turpin,Sally O'Neil,Alice Day,Patsy Ruth Miller,Marian Nixon,Lila Lee,Myrna Loyand 59 more
- Director
- John G. Adolfi
- Writer
- J. Keirn Brennan,Frank Fay
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- Barney McGill
- Budget
- $850,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0020403