Our Dancing Daughters
About Our Dancing Daughters
Diana Medford parties in public and stays careful in private. Her friend Ann wants a fortune and pretends to be the virtuous one. Both want the millionaire Ben Blaine, and he marries Ann. At a yacht-club party Ann’s lies come out, she falls down a flight of stairs, and she dies. Two years later Diana comes home and she and Ben are together.
Cast & crew
More about Our Dancing Daughters
Harry Beaumont directed. Hunt Stromberg produced. Josephine Lovett wrote it. George Barnes photographed it and William Axt wrote the music. There is no spoken dialogue. MGM released it on 1 September 1928 with a synchronized score and effects, on disc and on film. William Hamilton edited. The cost is listed at $178,000 and the return at $1,099,000.
Themes
Making
The party set includes a sculpted ice liner. Ben skips it until he learns Ann has lied about seeing her sick mother.
Look
George Barnes shot the yacht-club party, including the ice liner and the stairs where Ann falls.
Music
No spoken dialogue. William Axt’s synchronized score and effects were issued both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film. English intertitles carry the talk.
Notes
- Joan Crawford plays Diana. John Mack Brown plays Ben. Anita Page plays Ann. Dorothy Sebastian plays Bea. Nils Asther plays Norman.
- Kathlyn Williams plays Ann’s mother. Edward Nugent plays Freddie, the man Ann goes to meet.
- Bea marries Norman, who knows about her past. Ann’s fall comes after she mocks the cleaning women at the party.
- Josephine Lovett was nominated for Best Writing. George Barnes was nominated for Best Cinematography. Neither won.
- It is the picture credited with making Joan Crawford a star.
Scenes
- Ben marries Ann because he thinks Diana is not serious.
- Ann falls down the stairs after the party.
- Headlines announce Diana’s return two years later.
