Show of Shows
John G. Adolfi1929-11-21
5.5
128 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Frank Fay | Master of Ceremonies | Unowned |
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Lloyd Hamilton | Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") | Unowned |
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Lupino Lane | Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet | Unowned |
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Ben Turpin | Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number | Unowned |
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Sally O'Neil | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers | Unowned |
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Alice Day | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers | Unowned |
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Patsy Ruth Miller | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers | Unowned |
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Marian Nixon | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number | Unowned |
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Lila Lee | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number | Unowned |
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Myrna Loy | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | Unowned |
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Chester Morris | Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers | Unowned |
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Jack Mulhall | Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number | Unowned |
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Sôjin Kamiyama | Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin) | Unowned |
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Ted Lewis | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number | Unowned |
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Winnie Lightner | Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers | Unowned |
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Nick Lucas | Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | Unowned |
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Dolores Costello | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Helene Costello | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Molly O'Day | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Marceline Day | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Sally Blane | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Loretta Young | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Armida | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell) | Unowned |
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Lolita Vendrell | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell) | Unowned |
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Marion Byron | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Ann Sothern | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake) | Unowned |
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Alberta Vaughn | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Ada Mae Vaughn | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | Unowned |
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Viola Dana | Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers | Unowned |
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Shirley Mason | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers | Unowned |
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Irène Bordoni | Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number | Unowned |
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Rin-Tin-Tin | 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter | Unowned |
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Sid Silvers | Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number | Unowned |
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Harry Akst | Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni | Unowned |
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Johnny Arthur | Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Mary Astor | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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William Bakewell | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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John Barrymore | Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Richard Barthelmess | Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Noah Beery | Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Monte Blue | Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Hobart Bosworth | Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jack Buchanan | Jack (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Joseph A. Burke | Joe Burke (as Joe Burke) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Georges Carpentier | Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Ethlyne Clair | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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James Clemens | Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Ruth Clifford | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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William Collier Jr. | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Betty Compson | Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Chester Conklin | Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Heinie Conklin | Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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William Courtenay | The Minister - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jack Curtis | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Sally Eilers | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Louise Fazenda | 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Frances Lee | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Beatrice Lillie | Performer in 'Recitations' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Jacqueline Logan | Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Tully Marshall | Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Edna Murphy | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Carmel Myers | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Gertrude Olmstead | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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H.B. Warner | The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Dorothy Coonan Wellman | (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Alice White | Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Lois Wilson | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Grant Withers | Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited) | Unowned |