Show People (1928) - (Movie Clip) The Various Moods

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) That's John Gilbert!

Joining director King Vidor's opening, star Marion Davies (as "Peggy Pepper") and her father the colonel (Dell Henderson) arrive in Hollywood, spying the real John Gilbert entering the fictional "Mammoth" Studios, in the hit comedy Show People, 1928, also starring William Haines.

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Pepoire Is Fatigued

New comedy star Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies), struggling in her first dramatic picture, is persuaded by leading man Andre (Paul Ralli) that she needs to meet better people, including Louella Parsons, columnist for the newspaper chain run by Davies' consort William Randolph Hearst, in Show People, 1928.

Show People (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Who's That Little Guy?

Maybe the most obvious cameo gag possible at the time, still funny, Peggy (Marion Davies) and Billy (William Haines) leave the screening of her comic-hit first picture (Harry Gribbon her director), catch a trailer for another King Vidor film, then meet Chaplin outside, in Show People, 1928.