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Our Dancing Daughters
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 7652 feet / 97 minutes
Directed by Harry Beaumont

Cast: Joan Crawford [Diana Medford], John Mack Brown (Johnny Mack Brown) [Ben Blaine], Nils Asther [Norman], Dorothy Sebastian [Beatrice], Anita Page [Ann], Kathlyn Williams [Ann’s mother], Edward Nugent [Freddie], Dorothy Cumming [Diana’s mother], Huntley Gordon [Diana’s father], Evelyn Hall [Freddie’s mother], Sam de Grasse [Freddie’s father]; Bert Moorhouse [Diana’s party friend], Gordon Westcott [Diana’s party friend], Fred MacKaye [one of Diana’s admirers], Helen Brent [a party guest], Geraldine Dvorak [a party guest], Robert Livingston [a party boy], Alona Marlowe [a party girl], Mary Gordon [a scrubwoman], Lydia Knott [a scrubwoman], [?] Eddie Quillan?

Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Cosmopolitan Production; A Milestone Film Release]. / Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Scenario by Josephine Lovett, with dialogue by Josephine Lovett, from a screen story by Josephine Lovett. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons. Wardrobe (costume design) by David Cox. Song “I Loved You Then As I Love You Now” by Ballard MacDonald, William Axt and David Mendoza. Unit manager, Dave Friedman. Assistant director, Harold S. Bucquet. Photographed (cinematography) by George Barnes. Film editor, William Hamilton + [Margaret Booth]. Titles (intertitles written) by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 1 September 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP25605]. Released 1 September 1928. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Art Deco - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 20 May 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light p. 202; Brownlow-Parade p. 305; Dardis-Keaton pp. 160, 175; Everson-American pp. 146, 246l, 282, 312, 313-314, 316, 363; Higashi-Virgins pp. 121, 127-128; Limbacher-Feature p. 182; Mandelbaum-Screen pp. 1, 10, 12, 21, 32-33, 34, 170; Quirk-Crawford pp. 10, 15, 16, 64, 65, 66; Schelly-Langdon p. 129; Shipman-Cinema p. 98; Sweeney-Coming p. 130; Webb-Hollywood p. 186 : ClasIm-221 pp. 14, 16; ClasIm-330 p. 46 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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