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Cinematography
  
J. Roy Hunt

Initial release
  
1929

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Edited by
  
George Nichols Jr.

Production company
  
Paramount Pictures


Directed by
  
John Cromwell (sound version)A. Edward Sutherland (silent version)

Written by
  
Benjamin Glazer (screenplay)Arthur Hopkins (play "Burlesque")Julian Johnson (titles)George Manker Watters (play "Burlesque"), (dialogue) and (adaptation)

Starring
  
Hal SkellyNancy CarrollDorothy RevierRalph Theodore

Music by
  
Adolph DeutschVernon DukeJohn Leipold

Directors
  
John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland

Story by
  
Arthur Hopkins, George Manker Watters

Music director
  
Vernon Duke, Adolph Deutsch, John Leipold

Cast
  
Nancy Carroll, Hal Skelly, Dorothy Revier

Similar
  
Close Harmony, To Mary ‑ with Love, This Man Is Mine, World and the Flesh, Scandal Sheet

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The Dance of Life (1929) is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being Swing High, Swing Low (1937) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948).

Contents

The Dance of Life was shot at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens, and included Technicolor sequences, directed by John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland.

In 1957, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

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Cast

  • Hal Skelly - Johnson
  • Nancy Carroll - King
  • Dorothy Revier - Marco
  • Ralph Theodore - Howell
  • Charles D. Brown - Lefty
  • Al St. John - Bozo
  • May Boley - Gussie
  • Oscar Levant - Jerry
  • Marjorie Kane - uncredited

    • Plot

    Burlesque comic Ralph 'Skid' Johnson (Skelly), and dancer Bonny Lee King (Carroll), end up together on a cold, rainy night at a train station, when he's thrown out and she's rejected from the same show.

    The two things they have in life are dancing and each other, if she could only keep him away from the booze, long enough to keep dancing.

    A tragi-comedic, burlesque version of All That Jazz, from an earlier era.

    Soundtrack

  • "True Blue Lou"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo RobinSung by Hal Skelly
  • "The Flippity Flop"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
  • "King of Jazzmania"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
  • "Ladies of the Dance"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
  • "Cuddlesome Baby"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
  • "Mightiest Matador"
    • Music by Richard A. WhitingLyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
  • "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"
    • Written by Maude Nugent
  • "In the Gloaming"
    • Music by Annie Fortescue HarrisonLyrics by Meta Orred
  • "Sam, the Old Accordion Man"
    • Written by Walter Donaldson

    Preservation status

    No color prints survive, only black-and-white prints made in the 1950s for TV broadcast.

    References

    The Dance of Life Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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