I own this DVD and Gus Edwards is my great great uncle whoever did the description and redid the description need to watch the show . Gus Edwards produced almost all the music in the show.He was also in several of the acts in the show as well.When you watch the closing credits clear as day it says music by Gus Edwards! Is this some kind of a sick joke. BY not giving Gus Edwards the credit is a form of slander!The man has been dead since 1945 but shouldn't be correct?Before making statements and falsifying information maybe it wouldn't hurt to watch the show.I have a screen shot of the closing credits and as clear as day it says MUSIC BY GUS EDWARDS!!!!!why is this sight altering that ?I wish there was a way to upload onto this site!!!

If you answer 'yes,' then this film may prove entertaining. It certainly has historical value and fans of the stars involved will get a small kick out of seeing their favorites, even if it's in something as uninspired as this film.The sketches throughout are mildly entertaining at best and painfully awkward at worst. How can Jack Benny and Laurel and Hardy NOT be funny? Conrad Nagel looks downright uncomfortable as he warbles a love song to Anita Page. I love Marie Dressler, but why did MGM give her that awful song to sing? There are a few charming moments, like Buster Keaton's drag routine and Norma Shearer and John Gilbert doing the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet" in modern slang, but those moments are sparse.The whole thing is also un-cinematic, with a camera glued to the floor and everything shot like this is a stage show.Just skip to the scenes where your favorite actors do their thing and then forget the rest. It's overlong and awkward.

If anybody picks up this film to get an example of Laurel and Hardy - boy, will they get the wrong Picture! The sketch that they are doing here is abominably bad. Frankly, they are a pair of idiots here, period. But they were not idiots, you see - they were the greatest comical geniuses that ever lived only second to Tex Avery, the king of animation. Why did they do this? Can anybody tell me? As for the rest of the film, it's a film with Winners (must have been through good Contacts) that should have been losers or in jail, for all I care. This film was made by people totally without humor and totally unashamed. Shame on you for producing such garbage! Why, it's as bad as if it was out of Hollywood!!

What a crass attempt by "the studio with more stars than the heavens" to try and blind you with them in this ill conceived, poorly mounted musical comedy review in which our headliners could used a lot more rehearsal time. In no particular order MGM major stars Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and an uncomfortable looking Marie Dressler fumble their way through this ill conceived all star variety show featuring both Hollywood stalwarts and Broadway players clumsily handled by co masters of ceremony Conrad Nagel, who gets to show off his rusty pipes and Jack Benny, who delivers more misses than hits. It is all a rather sloppy affair poorly edited and paced as comedy routines go lame and large dance numbers look more like stampedes than chorus numbers.There are also a couple of early Technicolor scenes, one featuring a shrill Shearer as an over aged Juliet and John Gilbert's billy goat voiced Romeo in a scene directed by Lionel Barrymore that is near painful to endure. Revue is not a complete disaster with Ukelele Ike introducing Singing in the Rain to movie audiences, Natova and Company providing a spirited dance number, Bessie Love being dangerously tossed about the stage in a piece of slapstick, and Marion Davies being the only star not embarrassing herself on stage. There is also a provocative large dance scene among the hoofers with the girls white and the guys in black face with the scene changing from print to negative to re-enforce the contrast. I doubt very much this scene got past censors down South.Hollywood was still struggling with sound around the time of Revue and it is evident in many scenes but with jokes falling flat, the lack of cohesion in scene transition as well as dance numbers this musical comedy show remains off key from end to end.