190334
190334

Show of Shows

1929-11-21
5.5
en 128m
Music
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!

Director

John G. Adolfi

Producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer

J. Keirn Brennan

Writer

Frank Fay

Sound Engineer

Harvey Cunningham

Director of Photography

Barney McGill

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Status

Released

Budget

$850,000

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • The Vitaphone Corporation
  • Warner Bros. Pictures