The Show of Shows
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!
Genres
Music
Studio
The Vitaphone Corporation
Language
en
Status
Released
Cast
Master of Ceremonies
Frank Fay
Master of Ceremonies
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lloyd Hamilton
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Lupino Lane
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Ben Turpin
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Sally O'Neil
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Marian Nixon
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Myrna Loy
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Chester Morris
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Jack Mulhall
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
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