Show of Shows (1929)
The Show of Shows
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!
- Release date
- November 21, 1929
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $850,000
Cast
- Frank Fay as Master of Ceremonies
- William Courtenay as The Minister - Guillotine Sequence
- H.B. Warner as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence
- Hobart Bosworth as Executioner - Guillotine Sequence
- John Barrymore as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'
- Harry Akst as Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
- Armida as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
- Johnny Arthur as Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate'
- Mary Astor as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
- William Bakewell as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Crew
- John G. Adolfi · Director
- J. Keirn Brennan · Writer
- Frank Fay · Writer
- Darryl F. Zanuck · Producer
- Barney McGill · Cinematographer