Show of Shows
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!
The Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros. PicturesCast
Master of Ceremonies
Frank FayHansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lloyd HamiltonStreet Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Lupino LaneWaiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Ben TurpinPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Sally O'NeilPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice DayPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Patsy Ruth MillerPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Marian NixonPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila LeePerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Myrna Loy
Frank FayHansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lloyd HamiltonStreet Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Lupino LaneWaiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Ben TurpinPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Sally O'NeilPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice DayPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Patsy Ruth MillerPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Marian NixonPerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila LeePerformer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Myrna Loy
