Movion

5.5

2 reviews

Music

2h 8m

1929

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,...

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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 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!

DirectorJohn G. Adolfi
Release21 November 1929
GenreMusic
Duration2h 8m
Budget$850,000
Revenue?
Rate
5.5
2 reviews
Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures

2 reviews

Music

2h 8m

1929

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Cast

Frank Fay

Master of Ceremonies

Lloyd Hamilton

Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")

Lupino Lane

Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet

Sally O'Neil

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

Alice Day

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers

Patsy Ruth Miller

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers

Marian Nixon

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Lila Lee

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number

Myrna Loy

Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

Chester Morris

Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers

Jack Mulhall

Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number

Sôjin Kamiyama

Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch (as Sojin)

Winnie Lightner

Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers

Nick Lucas

Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

Dolores Costello

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Helene Costello

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Molly O'Day

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Marceline Day

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Sally Blane

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Loretta Young

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Armida

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)

Marion Byron

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Ann Sothern

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)

Alberta Vaughn

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Viola Dana

Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

Shirley Mason

Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers

Irène Bordoni

Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number

Rin-Tin-Tin

'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter

Sid Silvers

Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number

Johnny Arthur

Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

Mary Astor

Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)

William Bakewell

Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)

John Barrymore

Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess

Meet My Sister Presenter (uncredited)

Noah Beery

Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

Monte Blue

Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)

Hobart Bosworth

Executioner - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)