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The Life of the Party (1930)
Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Darryl F. Zanuck Arthur Caesar
Starring	Winnie Lightner Irene Delroy Jack Whiting Charles Butterworth Charles Judels
Music by	Earle Crooker Sidney D. Mitchell
Cinematography	Devereaux Jennings Frank B. Good (Technicolor)
Editing by	William Holmes
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	October 25, 1930
Running time	79 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Life of the Party is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. The musical numbers of this film were cut out before general release in the United States because the public had grown tired of musicals by late 1930. Only one song was left in the picture. The complete film was released intact in countries outside the United States where a backlash against musicals never occurred. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists. The film only survives in a black and white copy (of the United States release print) made in the 1950s for television.

Poster for the film showing Jack Whiting and Irene Delroy.

The girls try to find a millionaire in Havana but end up finding a male "gold-digger" who is looking for a rich woman to help pay his bills. Eventually, the dressmaker arrives in Havana...

Poster for the film.

One of the Pre-Code gags in this comedy include a scence where the dressmaker is showing the girls some dresses and says "And this one the prince wanted to wear but his mother would not let him." Towards the end of the film LeMaire catches up with the two golddiggers and literally destroys a room while shouting "I Will Call The Police If I Don't Get The Money For The Dresses" After he gets a check he says: "And I'm glad I didn't lose my temper!"

• "Poison Ivy"
• "Can It Be Possible?"(Cut from United States release print)
• "One Robin Doesn't Make A Spring" (Cut from United States release print)
• "Somehow" (Cut from United States release print)

Poster for the film showing Winnie Lightner, Charles Judels and Irene Delroy.

Only a black and white copy of the cut print released in the United States (without most of the musical numbers) seems to have survived. The complete film was released intact in countries outside the United States where a backlash against musicals never occurred. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists.

The music heard of the credits at the beginning of the film was added in the 1950s. These credits are also not original but have been redrawn, removing all indication that the film was photographed in Technicolor. The original music survives on Vitaphone disks. The rest of the film, beginning with the first title card ("New York was originally purchased from the Indians..."), has the original sound.

Full page color ad for the film from the November 1930 issue of New Movie Magazine.

• Winnie Lightner as Flo
• Irene Delroy as Dorothy 'Dot' Stottsbury
• Jack Whiting as Jerry 'A.J.' Smith
• Charles Butterworth as Colonel Joy
• Charles Judels as Monsieur LeMaire (the Dressmaker)
• John Davidson as Mr. A.J. Smith
• Arthur Hoyt as Jerry's secretary