Overview
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!
Director and cast
- John G. Adolfi Director
- Frank Fay as Master of Ceremonies
- Lloyd Hamilton as Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
- William Courtenay as The Minister - Guillotine Sequence
- Lupino Lane as Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
- H.B. Warner as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence
- Ben Turpin as Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
- Hobart Bosworth as Executioner - Guillotine Sequence
- John Barrymore as Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III'
- Sally O'Neil as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
- Mary Astor as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
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