Show of Shows (1929)
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
Master of Ceremonies
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)
Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Jack (uncredited)
Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited)
Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Crew
Director
Writer
Writer
Producer
Sound Engineer
Director of Photography