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The Show of Shows

6.6 1929 2h 8mNR
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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

VISUAL ARCHIVE

Selected stills from the film

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CAST

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Frank Fay
Frank FayMaster of Ceremonies
Lloyd Hamilton
Lloyd HamiltonHansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lupino Lane
Lupino LaneStreet Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin
Ben TurpinWaiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
John Barrymore
John BarrymoreRichard III in 'Henry VI Part III'
Sally O'Neil
Sally O'NeilPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day
Alice DayPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
Patsy Ruth MillerPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
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