The Show of Shows
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5/10
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!
Frank Fay
Lloyd Hamilton
Lupino Lane
Ben Turpin
Sally O'Neil
Alice Day
Patsy Ruth Miller
Marian Nixon
Lila Lee
Myrna Loy
Chester Morris
Jack Mulhall
Sôjin Kamiyama
Ted Lewis
Winnie Lightner
Nick Lucas
Dolores Costello
Helene Costello
Molly O'Day
Marceline Day
Sally Blane
Loretta Young
Armida
Lolita Vendrell
Marion Byron
Ann Sothern
Alberta Vaughn
Ada Mae Vaughn
Viola Dana
Shirley Mason
Irène Bordoni
Rin-Tin-Tin
Sid Silvers
Harry Akst
Johnny Arthur
Mary Astor
William Bakewell
John Barrymore
Richard Barthelmess
Noah Beery
Monte Blue
Hobart Bosworth
Jack Buchanan
Joseph A. Burke
Georges Carpentier
Ethlyne Clair
James Clemens
Ruth Clifford
William Collier Jr.
Betty Compson
Chester Conklin
Heinie Conklin
William Courtenay
Jack Curtis
Sally Eilers
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Louise Fazenda
Frances Lee
Beatrice Lillie
Jacqueline Logan
Tully Marshall
Edna Murphy
Carmel Myers
Gertrude Olmstead
H.B. Warner
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Alice White
Lois Wilson
Grant Withers
