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!
Cast
Master of Ceremonies
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number