The Dance of Life
| The Dance of Life | |
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| 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 Skelly Nancy Carroll Dorothy Revier Ralph Theodore |
| Music by |
Adolph Deutsch Vernon Duke John Leipold |
| Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
| Edited by | George Nichols Jr. |
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Production
company |
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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February 16, 1929 (New York City) August 31, 1929 (U.S.) |
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Running time
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115 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | also silent version intertitles English |
February 16, 1929 (New York City)
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.
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.
No color prints survive, only black-and-white prints made in the 1950s for TV broadcast.
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