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!

• John G. AdolfiDirector
• Frank FayWriter
• J. Keirn BrennanWriter

• Frank FayMaster of Ceremonies
• Lloyd HamiltonHansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
• Lupino LaneStreet Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
• Ben TurpinWaiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Sally O'NeilPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
• Alice DayPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
• Patsy Ruth MillerPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
• Marian NixonPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Lila LeePerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
• Myrna LoyPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
• Chester MorrisPerformer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
• Jack MulhallPerformer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number