Movie

The Show of Shows

★ 6.6/10 · 5 votes 1929 2h 8m Released

Music

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!

Cast

Frank Fay Master of Ceremonies Lloyd Hamilton Hansom Cabby in "What Beca Lupino Lane Street Cleaner in 'What Be Ben Turpin Waiter in 'What Became of Sally O'Neil Performer in 'What Became Alice Day Performer in 'What Became