Our Dancing Daughters
(1928) American
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], Eddie Quillan

Cosmopolitan Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Screenplay by Josephine Lovett, from a screen story by Josephine Lovett. Production design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Song “I Loved You Then As I Love You Now” by Ballard MacDonald, William Axt and David Mendoza. Assistant director Harold S. Bucquet. Cinematography by George Barnes. Intertitles by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Edited by William Hamilton + [Margaret Booth]. / © 1 September 1928 by Cosmopolitan Pictures Corporation [LP25605]. Released 1 September 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Romance.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Art Deco - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 31 March 2008.

References: 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.