Dancing Mothers
(1926) American
B&W : Eight reels / 7169 feet
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Alice Joyce [Ethel Westcourt], Conway Tearle [Jerry Naughton], Clara Bow [Kittens Westcourt], Donald Keith [Kenneth Cobb], Dorothy Cummings [Mrs. Massarene], Norman Trevor [Hugh Westcourt], Elsie Lawson [Irma], Leila Hyams

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Forrest Halsey, from the play Dancing Mothers by Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Goulding. Art direction by Julian Boone Fleming. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 3 March 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP22441]. Released 1 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The original ending, a happy one, was left unused.

Drama: Society.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1148.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Em Gee Film Library film collection [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Flappers - France: Paris - Infidelity - Marriages - Motherhood

Listing updated: 6 January 2008.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.1148; Baer-Film p. 58; Everson-American p. 202; FilmDaily-1926 p. 10; Higashi-Virgins p. 119; Kael-Kiss p. 253; Leish-Cinema p. 59; Limbacher-Feature p. 55; Maltin-Guide p. 279; Paris-Brooks p. 129; Sklar-Movie pp. 96, 98; Vermilye-Twenties p. 165; Weaver-Twenty p. 57 : ClasIm-204 p. C24; ClasIm-225 p. 16.

Home Video: DVD.