The Dance of Life

For other uses, see Dance of Life.
The Dance of Life
Directed by John Cromwell (silent version)
A. Edward Sutherland (sound version)
Written by Benjamin Glazer (screenplay)
Arthur Hopkins (play "Burlesque")
Julian Johnson (titles)
George Manker Watters (play "Burlesque"), (dialogue) and (adaptation)
Starring Hal Skelly
Nancy Carroll
Dorothy Revier
Ralph Theodore
Music by Adolph Deutsch
Vernon Duke
John Leipold
Cinematography J. Roy Hunt
Edited by George Nichols Jr.
Production
company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
 August 31, 1929 (1929-08-31)
Running time
 115 minutes
Country USA
Language also silent version intertitles English
The Dance of Life

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).

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.[1]

Cast

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

Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Sung by Hal Skelly
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin
Written by Maude Nugent
Music by Annie Fortescue Harrison
Lyrics by Meta Orred
Written by Walter Donaldson

Preservation status

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pierce, David (June 2007). "Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage Is Part of the Public Domain". Film History: An International Journal. 19 (2): 125–43. doi:10.2979/FIL.2007.19.2.125. ISSN 0892-2160. JSTOR 25165419. OCLC 15122313.

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