IPhoto 9.5.1 stalls as soon as slideshow is selected

I'm running iPhoto 9.5.1 on a newer iMac running OS 10.9.5 with the 2.7 Ghz processor and 8GB of RAM. My 1 TB HD has about 800 GB of free space.
I'm trying to create a slideshow and every time I select slideshow I get the pinwheel because iPhoto stops responding. I have a fairly large photo library with just over 10,000 photos so I took the 119 photos I wanted to use and copied them to my desktop. I then created a new iPhoto library and imported them. Same problem with just 119 photos in the entire library. For lack of anything else to try I ran disk utility to fix permissions. Unfortunately no change occurred. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

So no iPhoto Library is working at all?
then either you are having a problem with your user account (broken preferences files, permissions in your home folder) or there is as system wide problem with iPhoto. To test, if the problem is system wide or only occurs in your user account sign into the guest account (you may need to enable it in the System Preferences > Accounts panel). Can you run a slideshow, when working from the Guest account?
If iPhoto works from the Guest account, trash the iPhoto Preferences file.
Quit iPhoto, if it is open.
Remove your User preferences: Open your user library in your Home folder and delete the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist
Delete the complete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
Then restart the system and try again to launch iPhoto.
Your user library is hidden by default. To open the hidden User Library:
Use the Finder's "Go" menu.
Click "Go", then hold down the options key, until you are seeing "Library" in the drop down menu appear and click it.
In the Finder window that will open navigate to the folders Preferences and Containers and remove the files.
Then restart the Mac.
If iPhoto does not work from the Guest account either, reinstall iPhoto.
If that does not help, launch the Console.app from Applications > Utilities, and check, if there are any error messages in the Console Window, that might give us a clue.

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