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The Show of Shows

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!

Top Cast

  • Frank Fay

    Frank Fay

    Master of Ceremonies

  • Lloyd Hamilton

    Lloyd Hamilton

    Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")

  • Lupino Lane

    Lupino Lane

    Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet

  • Ben Turpin

    Ben Turpin

    Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

  • Sally O'Neil

    Sally O'Neil

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

  • Alice Day

    Alice Day

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

  • Patsy Ruth Miller

    Patsy Ruth Miller

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers

  • Marian Nixon

    Marian Nixon

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

  • Lila Lee

    Lila Lee

    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

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!

Rating

6.8 / 10
4 Reviews
1 Popular

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