The Wiz
1978
The Show of Shows
21/11/1929 2h 8m 5.5/10
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
John G. Adolfi
Top Billed Cast
Lupino Lane
Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin
Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lloyd Hamilton
Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Frank Fay
Master of Ceremonies
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
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