
Show of Shows (1929)
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!
Production Companies


Additional Info
Budget | $850,000.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 1.755 |
Directed By
John G. Adolfi
Crew
John G. Adolfi
J. Keirn Brennan
Frank Fay
Darryl F. Zanuck
Harvey Cunningham
Barney McGill
TOP CAST

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)