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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], Theresa Allen [Chorine], Lorena Carr [The Lady Of Holland], Jane Crowley [an Amazon chorus girl], Jean Douglas [an Amazon chorus girl], Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Marjorie Kane [a performer in “The Flippity Flop”], William H. O’Brien [Room Service Waiter No. 86], Guy Oliver [the telegraph clerk]
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Associate producer, David Selznick (David O. 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). Costume design by Travis Banton. Choreography by Earl Lindsay. Lighting by Earl Miller. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Recording engineer, Harry D. Mills [?] with Joseph E. Aiken? Film editor, George Nichols Jr. (George Nicholls Jr.). Editorial assistants, Edward Dmytryk and Jane Loring. Intertitles written by Julian Johnson. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 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 (sound version) and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version)? 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 Pictures 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: 31 January 2025.
References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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