From the Wikipedia entry for "The Dance of Life": "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 made with Technicolor sequences, directed by John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland, and was released by Paramount Pictures." Original text can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dance_of_Life License terms may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ All Technicolor prints are lost, only the black and white c
You can stream The Dance of Life (1929) free and legally on OldReel, via the Internet Archive.
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