Show of Shows
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.
Casts & Crew
Frank Fay
Lloyd Hamilton
Lupino Lane
Ben Turpin
Sally O'Neil
Alice Day
Patsy Ruth Miller
Marian Nixon
Lila Lee
Myrna Loy
Chester Morris
Jack Mulhall
Sôjin Kamiyama
Ted Lewis
Winnie Lightner
Nick Lucas
Dolores Costello
Helene Costello
Molly O'Day
Marceline Day
Sally Blane
Loretta Young
Armida
Lolita Vendrell
Marion Byron
Ann Sothern
Alberta Vaughn
Ada Mae Vaughn
Viola Dana
Shirley Mason
Irène Bordoni
Rin-Tin-Tin
Sid Silvers
Harry Akst
Johnny Arthur
Mary Astor
William Bakewell
John Barrymore
Richard Barthelmess
Noah Beery
Monte Blue
Hobart Bosworth
Jack Buchanan
Joseph A. Burke
Georges Carpentier
Ethlyne Clair
James Clemens
Ruth Clifford
William Collier Jr.
Betty Compson
Chester Conklin
Heinie Conklin
William Courtenay
Jack Curtis
Sally Eilers
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Louise Fazenda
Frances Lee
Beatrice Lillie
Jacqueline Logan
Tully Marshall
Edna Murphy
Carmel Myers
Gertrude Olmstead
H.B. Warner
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Alice White
Lois Wilson
Grant Withers
Also Directed by John G. Adolfi
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