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The Dance of Life
(1929) United States of America
Color/B&W : 13 reels / 10,619 feet
Directed by John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland

Cast: Hal Skelly [Ralph ‘Skid’ Johnson], Nancy Carroll [Bonny Lee King], Dorothy Revier [Sylvia Marco], Ralph Theodore [Harvey Howell], Charles D. Brown [Lefty], Al St. John [Bozo], May Boley [Gussie], Oscar Levant [Jerry], Gladys Du Bois [Miss Sherman], James Quinn [Jimmy], James Farley [Champ Melvin], George Irving [the minister], Gordona Bennet [Amazon chorus girl], Miss La Reno [Amazon chorus girl], Cora Beach Shumway [Amazon chorus girl], Charlotte Ogden [Amazon chorus girl], Kay Deslys [Amazon chorus girl], Magda Blom [Amazon chorus girl], Thelma McNeal [the gilded girl, ‘Lady of India’], John Cromwell [the doorkeeper], Edward Sutherland [a theater attendant]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer, David Selznick. Screenplay by Benjamin Glazer, with dialogue by George Manker Watters, from the play Burlesque by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins. Songs “True Blue Lou,” “King of Jazzmania,” “Cuddlesome Baby,” “The Flippity Flop” and “Ladies of the Dance,” by Richard A. Whiting, Leo Robin and Sam Coslow (music and lyrics); “Sweet Rosie O’Grady,” by Maude Nugent (music and lyrics); “In the Gloaming,” by Annie Fortesque Harrison (music and lyrics); “Sam, the Old Accordian Man,” by Walter Donaldson (music and lyrics). Choreography by Earl Lindsay. Lighting by Earl Miller. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Recording engineer, Harry D. Mills. Film editor, George Nichols Jr. Intertitles written by Julian Johnson. / © 7 August 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP672]. Premiered 16 August 1929 in New York, New York. Released 7 September 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Technicolor [process three] two-strip color process sequences. [?] Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system? / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in eight reels (at 7488 feet) by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 18 October 2009.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

 
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