Show of Shows

APPROPIATE

1929 / 128min.

Rating5.5

Genres

Music

Synopsis

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!

Directors

Actors

Loretta Young

Mary Astor

Myrna Loy

Chester Morris

Marceline Day

Jack Mulhall

Noah Beery

Louise Fazenda

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Frank Fay

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