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Show of Shows (1929)

Audience Score
55
Show of Shows
NR 2 hr 8 minDec 29th, 1929Music
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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 silentscreen favorites for the first time in a gaudy grandiose musiccomedynovelty revue that also included Talkie stars Broadway luminaries and of course RinTinTin 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 twostrip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy adding an onscreen voice to his legendary profile for the first time and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub Watch rinse repeat
WritersFrank FayJ. Keirn Brennan

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:December 29th, 1929
Movie Budget:$850,000
Original Language:English
Production Companies:The Vitaphone Corporation Warner Bros Pictures