If anyone ever doubted Joan Crawford's beauty - I would recommend this film. It is pure soap opera but I LOVE it.
This film transports you to the "jazz age" from the opening scene. A snappy charleston sets the scene as as energetic Joan dresses up for a big party. Joan Crawford, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page star as three very different types of flapper.
Joan is absolutely radiant as Diana Medford, a wealthy, fun-loving flapper with understanding parents. She is a good, moralistic girl who would never do anything mean or under-handed. Dorothy Sebastian is Bea, a girl with a past and is the quietest of the group. Her parents are strict and over- protective.
If there were Academy Awards given back then, in my opinion, Anita Page would have been sure to win one as the scheming Ann. She acts everyone off the screen as the girl who is being coached by her mercenary mother to marry a wealthy man using any means at her disposal. Johnny Mack Brown is the wealthy southern gentleman, who is instantly smitten with the lovely Diana. Ann and her mother (Kathlyn Williams, an early serial queen) are determined to "land" him and do, using the "you have kept me out all night, you must make an honest woman of me" excuse. Diana tries to forget him. Bea has meanwhile married Norman (Nils Asther). He is eaten up with jealousy, knowing he wasn't the first and is becoming too controlling, not approving of her old friends and often walking out on her.
The story reaches a dramatic conclusion at a going away party given to Diana by Bea.
The film I saw had an original musical soundtrack and was full of very peppy music - although "I Loved You Then and I Love You Now" and "Here Am I, Brokenhearted" were pretty dreary songs. There is so much more to "Our Dancing Daughters". There are the beautiful art-deco sets, the huge staircases, the mad parties, Joan's frenzied dances, the elegant Adrian dresses and the mad, glorious whirl that was the twenties ( or the way MGM thought the 20s should be.)
"Our Dancing Daughters" had a massive influence on girls at the time. Apart from seeing the movie in droves (there was often only standing room only), a survey done in the early thirties found that Diana's character, that of a party girl who has morals and decency made other "party girls" realise that they could have a good time but still retain a "play fair" attitude.
This film transports you to the "jazz age" from the opening scene. A snappy charleston sets the scene as as energetic Joan dresses up for a big party. Joan Crawford, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page star as three very different types of flapper.
Joan is absolutely radiant as Diana Medford, a wealthy, fun-loving flapper with understanding parents. She is a good, moralistic girl who would never do anything mean or under-handed. Dorothy Sebastian is Bea, a girl with a past and is the quietest of the group. Her parents are strict and over- protective.
If there were Academy Awards given back then, in my opinion, Anita Page would have been sure to win one as the scheming Ann. She acts everyone off the screen as the girl who is being coached by her mercenary mother to marry a wealthy man using any means at her disposal. Johnny Mack Brown is the wealthy southern gentleman, who is instantly smitten with the lovely Diana. Ann and her mother (Kathlyn Williams, an early serial queen) are determined to "land" him and do, using the "you have kept me out all night, you must make an honest woman of me" excuse. Diana tries to forget him. Bea has meanwhile married Norman (Nils Asther). He is eaten up with jealousy, knowing he wasn't the first and is becoming too controlling, not approving of her old friends and often walking out on her.
The story reaches a dramatic conclusion at a going away party given to Diana by Bea.
The film I saw had an original musical soundtrack and was full of very peppy music - although "I Loved You Then and I Love You Now" and "Here Am I, Brokenhearted" were pretty dreary songs. There is so much more to "Our Dancing Daughters". There are the beautiful art-deco sets, the huge staircases, the mad parties, Joan's frenzied dances, the elegant Adrian dresses and the mad, glorious whirl that was the twenties ( or the way MGM thought the 20s should be.)
"Our Dancing Daughters" had a massive influence on girls at the time. Apart from seeing the movie in droves (there was often only standing room only), a survey done in the early thirties found that Diana's character, that of a party girl who has morals and decency made other "party girls" realise that they could have a good time but still retain a "play fair" attitude.