The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows is a 1929 American PreCode musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all talking Vitaphone production cost 850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor. The Show of Shows was Warner Bros. fifth color movie the first four were The Desert Song 1929, On with the Show 1929, Gold Diggers of Broadway 1929 and Paris 1929. Song of the West was actually completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930. The Show of Shows featured most of the contemporary Warner Bros. film stars, including John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Noah Beery, Sr., Loretta Young, Dolores Costello, Bull Montana, Myrna Loy, Chester Conklin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Tully Marshall and Betty Compson
The film features nearly all the stars then working under contract at Warner Bros. Virtually all the performers shown would vanish from the studio by 1931, after tastes had shifted owing to the effects of the Great Depression, which began to be felt late in 1930.The Show of Shows features many of the performers who were popular in silent movies mixed in with handpicked stage stars and novelty acts. The emcee of the film was Frank Fay, who performed in the style of barbed sarcasm. In an era of almost naive optimism, he stands out as a witty devils advocate. ........
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