The Show of Shows

Name: The Show of Shows
Director: John G. Adolfi
Genre: Music
Released: 1929-11-21
Duration: 128 min
Cast: Frank Fay, Lloyd Hamilton, Lupino Lane, Ben Turpin, John Barrymore

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1929 · 128 min · NR · Music · TMDB 6.6/10

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!

Directed by John G. Adolfi

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
John Barrymore — Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'