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Show of Shows (1929)
Directed by John G. Adolfi
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!
Rated NR | Length 128 minutes
Actors
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