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!

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Cast

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Frank Fay actor

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Lloyd Hamilton actor Lupino Lane actor Ben Turpin actor Sally O'Neil actor Alice Day actor

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Patsy Ruth Miller actor

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Marian Nixon actor

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Lila Lee actor Myrna Loy actor

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Chester Morris actor

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Jack Mulhall actor Sōjin Kamiyama actor Ted Lewis actor Winnie Lightner actor

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Nick Lucas actor Dolores Costello actor

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Helene Costello actor

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Molly O'Day actor

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Marceline Day actor