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The Show of Shows

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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
  • Runtime
  • 128 min
  • Genres
  • Music
  • Director
  • John G. Adolfi

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Frank Fay photo Frank Fay Master of Ceremonies Lloyd Hamilton photo Lloyd Hamilton Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") Lupino Lane photo Lupino Lane Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet Ben Turpin photo Ben Turpin Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number Sally O'Neil photo Sally O'Neil Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers Alice Day photo Alice Day Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers Patsy Ruth Miller photo Patsy Ruth Miller Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers Marian Nixon photo Marian Nixon Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

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  • Frank Fay photo
    Master of CeremoniesFrank Fay
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  • Lloyd Hamilton photo
    Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")Lloyd Hamilton
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  • Lupino Lane photo
    Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' BalletLupino Lane
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  • Ben Turpin photo
    Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' NumberBen Turpin
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  • Sally O'Neil photo
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' NumbersSally O'Neil
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  • Alice Day photo
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' NumbersAlice Day
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  • Patsy Ruth Miller photo
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' NumbersPatsy Ruth Miller
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  • Marian Nixon photo
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' NumberMarian Nixon
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    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' NumberLila Lee
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  • Myrna Loy photo
    Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' NumbersMyrna Loy
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  • Chester Morris photo
    Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' NumbersChester Morris
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    Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' NumberJack Mulhall
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