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Title:The Dance Of Life


Date: 1929
Type: Drama / Musical
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: John Cromwell
Producer: David O Selznick

A comedian teams up with a dancer to form a variety act in a vaudervlle / burlesque theatre. They get married but when he gets his big break he goes off without her, but his life and career falls apart whilst she joins up with a rich rancher. The plot of life and love behind the scenes in a theatre is nothhing special, but it is a good period piece of an early talkie portraying vaudaville in the late 1920's. It is based on a braodway play and parts of it show these origins. There is a good performance from Nancy Carroll that made Barbara Stanwyck famous on stage.
Actors

Hal Skelly
Nancy CarrollNancy Carroll
Dorothy RevierDorothy Revier
Ralph Theadore
Charles Brown
Al St JohnAl St John
May Boley
Oscar LevantOscar Levant

Oscars

None
Production

Paramount