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!
Year: 1929
Genre: Music
Studio: The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: Frank Fay, Lloyd Hamilton, Lupino Lane, Ben Turpin, Sally O'Neil, Alice Day
Crew: John G. Adolfi (Director), J. Keirn Brennan (Writer), Frank Fay (Writer), Darryl F. Zanuck (Producer), Harvey Cunningham (Sound Engineer), Barney McGill (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 128 minutes
Release: Nov 21, 1929
IMDb: 5.50/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 0
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 850
Revenue: 0
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