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.
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.
Plot
Burlesque comic Ralph “Skid” Johnson (Skelly), and specialty dancer Bonny Lee King (Carroll), end up together on a cold, rainy night at a train station, after she fails an audition and he complains about her treatment by the impresario of the show and quits. They decide to team up and apply for work with a much better show on “the big wheel”.
Cast
Hal Skelly as “Skid” Johnson
Nancy Carroll as Bonny King
Dorothy Revier as Sylvia Marco
Ralph Theodore as Harvey Howell
Charles D. Brown as Lefty
Al St. John as Bozo
May Boley as Gussie
Oscar Levant as Jerry
Marjorie Kane (uncredited)
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