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The Show of Shows

1929 2 hours 8 minutes
62/100

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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!

Released

21st November 1929

96 years ago

Runtime

2 hours 8 minutes

Finishes at 11:23pm

Budget

$850,000 ($16,167,510 today)

Revenue unknown

Ratings and awards

  • IMDB Logo

    5.8/10

  • TMDb Logo

    66%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    62%

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Directed by

John G. Adolfi

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Written by

J. Keirn Brennan, Frank Fay

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