The Show of Shows (6.6)

Movie · 1929 · 2 h 08 min · 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!

Directed by: John G. Adolfi

Starring Frank Fay, Lloyd Hamilton, Lupino Lane, Ben Turpin, John Barrymore, Sally O'Neil, Alice Day, Patsy Ruth Miller, Marian Nixon, Lila Lee

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