The Show of Shows
(1929) American
Color : 15 reels
Directed by John G. Adolfi

Cast: Hobart Bosworth, Johnny Arthur, H.B. Warner, William Courtenay, George Carpenter, Monte Blue, Alice White, Molly O’Day, Frank Fay, Beatrice Lillie, Ben Turpin, Louise Fazenda, Lloyd Hamilton, Richard Barthelmess, Heinie Conklin, Dolores Costello, Helene Costello, Lupino Lane, Sally O’Neil, Bert Roach, Marceline Day, Lee Moran, Alice Day, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Sally Blane, Patsy Ruth Miller, Winnie Lightner, Lila Lee, Irene Bordoni, Myrna Loy, Edward Ward, Marian Nixon, Nick Lucas, Sid Silver, Jack Mulhall, Chester Conklin, Sojin Kamiyama, Grant Withers, William Collier Jr. (Buster Collier), William Bakewell, Noah Beery (Sr.), Lois Wilson, Pauline Garon, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Olmstead, Bull Montana, Anders Randolph, Edna Murphy, Kalla Pasha, Jacqueline Logan, Wheeler Oakman, Harry Akst, Otto Matieson, John Barrymore, Philo McCullough, E.J. Radcliffe, Shirley Mason, Anthony Bushnell, Carmel Myers, Albert Gran, Viola Dana, Alexander Gray, Frances Lee, Betty Compson, Sally Eilers, Ruth Clifford, Ethelyne Claire, Chester Morris, Harriette Lake (Ann Sothern), Rin-Tin-Tin the dog, Ted Lewis and his Orchestra, Lola and Armida, the Williams Adagio Dancers

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay by Frank Fay and J. Keirn Brennan. Cinematography by Bernard McGill. / © 7 December 1929 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP903]. Released 20 November 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system. / Full-sound film.

All-star revue.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 13 March 2007.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170; Bohn-Light p. 184; Drew-Speaking pp. 156, 281, 290; Everson-American p. 343; Katchmer-Eighty p. 23; Limbacher-Feature p. 222; Mandelbaum-Screen p. 73; Quirk-Powell p. 115; Shipman-Cinema p. 105; Taylor-Hitchcock p. 103; Weaver-Twenty p. 306 : ClasIm-257 p. C8; ClasIm-278 p. 19; ClasIm-301 p. 47.