The Dance of Life

Skid, a baggy-pants comic, and Bonny join their acts, marry to save on hotel rooms, reach Broadway, and Skid drinks it away; she leaves for a rancher, he falls apart, and she comes back for the last performance. Hal Skelly repeats his stage role from the play Burlesque and keeps the film honest, since he had lived in the world it shows. Nancy Carroll plays the part Barbara Stanwyck had on Broadway. An early-talkie backstage picture, plain, with a Technicolor sequence for the big revue. John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland for Paramount, 1929.