Our Dancing Daughters
| Our Dancing Daughters | |
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| Directed by | Harry Beaumont |
| Produced by | Hunt Stromberg |
| Written by | Story & Scenario: Josephine Lovett Titles: Marion Ainslee Ruth Cummings |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Johnny Mack Brown |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Editing by | William Hamilton |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 1, 1928 |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont, produced by Hunt Stromberg and stars Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown.
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Plot and cast
"Dangerous Diana" Medford (Crawford) is outwardly flamboyant and popular but inwardly virtuous and idealistic, patronizing her parents (Dorothy Cumming and Huntley Gordon) by telling them not to stay out late. Her friend Ann (Anita Page) chases boys for their money and is as amoral as her mother (Kathlyn Williams).
Diana and Ann are both attracted to Ben Blaine (Brown). He takes Diana's flirtatious behavior with other boys as a sign of disinterest in him and marries Ann. Diana becomes distraught for a while. Later, Diana throws a party which Ann hopes to attend with her lover, Freddie (Edward J. Nugent). She gets into an argument with her husband about the party but attends anyway; Ben attends behind Ann's back. Ben and Diana realize their love for each other, and, when Ann falls to her death due to drunkenness, the two are free to unite. Others in the cast include Nils Asther as Norman, Dorothy Sebastian as Beatrice, Evelyn Hall and Sam De Grasse as Freddie's parents.
Reception
Bland Johnson in the New York Mirror commented, "Joan Crawford...does the greatest work of her career."[1]
See also
References
- ^ Quirk, Lawrence J.. The Films of Joan Crawford. The Citadel Press, 1968.
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