The Dance of Life
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.
From the archive
From the Wikipedia entry for "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 made with Technicolor sequences, directed by John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland, and was released by Paramount Pictures." Original text can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dance_of_Life License terms may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ All Technicolor prints are lost, only the black and white copies made in the 1950s for TV have survived. This copy is from VHS and consequently has inferior image quality.
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- Director
- John Cromwell
- Starring
- Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore, Charles D. Brown, Al St. John, May Boley, Oscar Levant
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