Show of Shows

Dec 29 1929 Passed 2h 8m
Musical

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!

Plot

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice and offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appearing are actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway, and, of course, the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.

Written by

J. Keirn Brennan, Frank Fay, William Shakespeare

Directed by

John G. Adolfi

Cast

Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H.B. Warner

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
528
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA