The Show of Shows is a
1929 American
Pre-Code 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