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The Dance of Life is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being Swing High, Swing Low
Swing High, Swing Low (film)
Swing High, Swing Low is a 1937 American romantic musical film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.This is the second film adaptation, after The Dance of Life and before When My Baby Smiles at Me , of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins.-Cast:*...

(1937) and When My Baby Smiles at Me
When My Baby Smiles at Me (film)
When My Baby Smiles at Me is a musical film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. This is the third film based on the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being The Dance of Life and Swing High, Swing Low...

(1948). The Dance of Life was made with Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

sequences, directed by John Cromwell

John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager Cromwell , known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer.-Biography:...

and A. Edward Sutherland

A. Edward Sutherland

A. Edward Sutherland aka Eddie Sutherland was a film director and actor. Born Albert Edward Sutherland in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer...

, and was released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

Cast

Hal Skelly
Hal Skelly
Hal Skelly was an American Broadway and film actor.-Biography:J. Harold Skelly was born in Alleghenyville, Pennsylvania and spent his early years in Davenport, Iowa. He left home at the age of 15 and joined the circus. He acted in his first stage production, The Time, the Place and the Girl, at...

- Ralph 'Skid' Johnson
Nancy Carroll
Nancy Carroll
Nancy Carroll was an American actress.-Career:She was christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City. Of Irish parentage, she and her sister once performed a dancing act in a local contest of amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then to the screen. She began her acting career in...

- Bonny Lee King
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American actress.She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing...

- Sylvia Marco
Ralph Theodore - Harvey Howell
Charles D. Brown - Lefty
Al St. John - Bozo
May Boley - Gussie
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...

- Jerry
Gladys DuBois - Miss Sherman
James Quinn - Jimmy
Jim Farley - Champ Melvin
George Irving
George Irving (American actor)
George Henry Irving was an American film actor and director who made over 200 films in his lifetime. Some of his best known movies were Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Hearts Divided, A Night at the Opera, Son of Dracula, Hangmen Also Die!, Once Upon a Honeymoon, and Maid's Night Out.-Death:Irving...

- 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
Kay Deslys
Kay Deslys was a British comedy actress in American films from the 1920s.Born as Kathleen Herbert in London, one of her earliest roles was in Charlie Chaplin's celebrated feature The Gold Rush; she later appeared in several comedies at the Hal Roach Studios, including several early Laurel and...

- Amazon Chorus Girl
Magda Blom - Amazon Chorus Girl
Thelma McNeil - Gilded Girl (as Thelma McNeal)
John Cromwell
John Cromwell (director)
Elwood Dager Cromwell , known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer.-Biography:...

- Doorkeeper
A. Edward Sutherland
A. Edward Sutherland
A. Edward Sutherland aka Eddie Sutherland was a film director and actor. Born Albert Edward Sutherland in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer...

- Theater Attendant

Soundtrack

"True Blue Lou"

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Richard A. Whiting

Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....

Lyrics by Sam Coslow

Sam Coslow

Sam Coslow was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager...

and Leo Robin

Leo Robin

Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...

Sung by Hal Skelly

"The Flippity Flop"

Music by Richard A. Whiting