The Dance Of Life

(1929)

115 minutes

Drama / Musical / Romance

Directed by John Cromwell 
 
Cast:

Hal Skelly as Ralph 'Skid' Johnson
Nancy Carroll as Bonny Lee King
Dorothy Revier as Sylvia Marco
Ralph Theodore as Harvey Howell
Charles D. Brown as Lefty
Al 'Fuzzy' St. John as Bozo
May Boley as Gussie
Oscar Levant as Jerry
Gladys DuBois as Miss Sherman
James Quinn as Jimmy
Jim Farley as Champ Melvin
George Irving as Minister
Gordona Bennet as Amazon Chorus Girl
Miss La Reno as Amazon Chorus Girl
Cora Beach Shumway as Amazon Chorus Girl
Charlotte Ogden as Amazon Chorus Girl
Kay Deslys as Amazon Chorus Girl
Magda Blom as Amazon Chorus Girl
Thelma McNeil as Gilded Girl 
John Cromwell as Doorkeeper
A. Edward Sutherland as Theater Attendant
 
A look at the backstage goings-on at a burlesque theater. A successful entertainer's life goes down the tubes when he hits the bottle. His wife leaves him because of his philandering, but returns when she sees how much he really needs her. One scene of the Ziegfeld Follies uses two-tone Technicolor technology. This was re-made twice: as "Swing High, Swing Low" in 1937 and as "When My Baby Smiles At Me" in 1948. Carroll replaced the stage lead, who was said to have no "name recognition"