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[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 180
Released: 1929-11-21
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Budget: 850000
Studios:
The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures,
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 / Directors
Cast
Lloyd Hamilton
Character: Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
Lupino Lane
Character: Street Cleaner in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number / 'Tramp' Ballet
Ben Turpin
Character: Waiter in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Sally O'Neil
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Alice Day
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Meet My Sister' Numbers
Patsy Ruth Miller
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Marian Nixon
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Lila Lee
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number
Myrna Loy
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Chester Morris
Character: Performer in $20 Bet Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers
Jack Mulhall
Character: Performer in '$20 Bet' Sketch and 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number
Ted Lewis
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number
Winnie Lightner
Character: Performer in 'Pingo Pongo' & 'Singing in the Bathtub' Numbers
Nick Lucas
Character: Lady Luck Solo for 'The Only Song I Know' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Molly O'Day
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Sally Blane
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Armida
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Mimi Vendrell)
Lolita Vendrell
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number (as Lola Vendrell)
Ann Sothern
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (as Harriet Lake)
Viola Dana
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Shirley Mason
Character: Performer in 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
Irène Bordoni
Character: Performer in 'Just for One Hour of Love' Number
Sid Silvers
Character: Al Jolson Impersonator / Introducing Larry Ceballos Black and White Girls Number
Harry Akst
Character: Pianist Accompanying Irene Bordoni
Johnny Arthur
Character: Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Mary Astor
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
William Bakewell
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
John Barrymore
Character: Richard III in 'Henry VI Part III' (uncredited)
Noah Beery
Character: Performer in "The Pirate" Number / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Character: Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Georges Carpentier
Character: Boulevardier in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Ethlyne Clair
Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
James Clemens
Character: Performer (as Jimmy Clemons) (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Betty Compson
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Character: Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Character: Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Sally Eilers
Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Frances Lee
Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
Jacqueline Logan
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' & 'Bicycle Built for Two' Numbers (uncredited)
Tully Marshall
Character: Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Edna Murphy
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Carmel Myers
Character: Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
H.B. Warner
Character: The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)
Alice White
Character: Performer in 'If I Could Learn to Love' Number (uncredited)
Lois Wilson
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Grant Withers
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Production and Crew
