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The Dance of Life, 1929
A dancer reads a letter beside the chorus.
What
A 1929 Paramount one-sheet for The Dance of Life, an American musical.
Why
John Cromwell and A. Edward Sutherland directed this first screen version of the Broadway play Burlesque, with Hal Skelly in the lead he had played on stage.
Notice
A column of kicking chorus girls climbs the left edge, and the sheet calls the play "the sensational stage success" in yellow script.
“Burlesque, brought to the talkies”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Dance of Life (1929), dir. John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland
- Country / studio
- United States · Paramount Pictures
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1929
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
From Silent Hollywood
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Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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