Show of Shows

Movie genre: Music

Movie Budget: $850,000.00

21-Nov-1929

128 min

5.5/10 (2)

English

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!

Movie tag line: "Tagline Not Available"

Production companies:

The Vitaphone Corporation

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast & Crew

Frank Fay

Character: Master of Ceremonies

Lloyd Hamilton

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

Lupino Lane

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

Ben Turpin

Character: Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Sally O'Neil

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

Alice Day

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

Patsy Ruth Miller

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

Marian Nixon

Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Lila Lee

Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Myrna Loy

Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

Chester Morris

Character: Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers

Jack Mulhall

Character: Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number

Sôjin Kamiyama

Character: Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)

Ted Lewis

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number

Winnie Lightner

Character: Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers

Nick Lucas

Character: Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

Dolores Costello

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Helene Costello

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Molly O'Day

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Marceline Day

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Sally Blane

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Loretta Young

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Armida

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)

Lolita Vendrell

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)

Marion Byron

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Ann Sothern

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)

Alberta Vaughn

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Ada Mae Vaughn

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Viola Dana

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

Shirley Mason

Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

Irène Bordoni

Character: Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

Rin-Tin-Tin

Character: 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

Sid Silvers

Character: Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number

Harry Akst

Character: Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni

Johnny Arthur

Character: Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

Mary Astor

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

William Bakewell

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

John Barrymore

Character: Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess

Character: Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

Noah Beery

Character: Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

Monte Blue

Character: Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

Hobart Bosworth

Character: Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

Jack Buchanan

Character: Jack (uncredited)

Joseph A. Burke

Character: Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)

Georges Carpentier

Character: Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

Ethlyne Clair

Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

James Clemens

Character: Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)

Ruth Clifford

Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

William Collier Jr.

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

Betty Compson

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

Chester Conklin

Character: Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Character: Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)

William Courtenay

Character: The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

Jack Curtis

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

Sally Eilers

Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Character: Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

Louise Fazenda

Character: 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)

Frances Lee

Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

Beatrice Lillie

Character: Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)

Jacqueline Logan

Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)

Tully Marshall

Character: Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

Edna Murphy

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

Carmel Myers

Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

Gertrude Olmstead

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

H.B. Warner

Character: The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Character: (uncredited)

Alice White

Character: Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)

Lois Wilson

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

Grant Withers

Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)

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