Show of Shows

Synopsis

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!

Main Cast

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

Lloyd Hamilton

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

Age : 43 | Popularity : 9%

Lupino Lane

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

Age : 67 | Popularity : 3%

Ben Turpin

Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Age : 70 | Popularity : 14%

Sally O'Neil

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

Age : 59 | Popularity : 4%

Alice Day

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

Age : 118 | Popularity : 3%

Patsy Ruth Miller

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

Age : 91 | Popularity : 4%

Marian Nixon

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Age : 78 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Darryl F. Zanuck
Camera	Director of Photography	Barney McGill
Writing	Writer	Frank Fay J. Keirn Brennan
Directing	Director	John G. Adolfi
Sound	Sound Engineer	Harvey Cunningham
Department	Role	Name

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