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      Our Dancing Daughters

      1928 1h 24m Drama List
      Reviews 64% Audience Score 100+ Ratings In the midst of the Jazz Age, two friends wrestle with love and liberation. Diana (Joan Crawford) has a flamboyant personality that masks a sweet nature, while Ann (Anita Page) is outwardly reserved, but coldly manipulative on the inside. When Diana sets her sights on the rich, debonair Ben (Johnny Mack Brown), Ann gets competitive, and successfully steals Ben away from her. It's only after they've married that Ben realizes what a cruel person Ann is, and that his heart really belongs to Diana. Read More Read Less

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      Sid Silverman Variety [Our Dancing Daughters] is sumptuously mounted, gets plenty of playing from three girls and is sufficiently physically teasing. Jul 22, 2008 Full Review Robert E. Sherwood LIFE For some time past I have been nourishing the secret hope that the jazz-mad, gin-soaked younger generation had vanished from the screen. I communicated my thoughts to no one, as I didn't want to trifle with my luck. However, it's all over now. Oct 4, 2021 Full Review Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm ...gives Joan Crawford a crackerjack early role. Rated: 3/4 Oct 19, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Steve D Strong silent film with a good story. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review StephenPaul C The greatest 01 hour: and 24 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/07/23 Full Review Louisa E This movie got better as it went along. I was confused to start with and I think it took me 30 minutes to work out the gist. The plot was interesting but not gripping. I liked the moral of the movie but it probably was a bit much for modern audiences. I loved the Art Deco sets. The acting was pretty good and I can see how this movie projected Crawford into the movie stratosphere. 6.6/10. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/08/23 Full Review william d Yes, it's a chick flick with an all-too-convenient ending. I liked it anyway. Both Joan Crawford and Anita Page are terrific. Whenever I watch Crawford's early films, however, I always ask myself, "Who thought Joan Crawford could dance?" Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A silent film starring Joan Crawford about the loosening of youth morals, took place during the 1920s. This was the film that made Joan Crawford a major star. There is no audible dialogue but it was released with a synchronized sound track and sound effects. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "Joan Crawford is the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faint bitter expression, dancing deliciously laughing with wide hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living". Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member The movie that launched Joan Crawford's career, and which so nicely captured some of the spirit of the flappers in the late 1920's. The scenes of her cutting loose with the Charleston amidst art deco furnishings are certainly the highlight. The plot itself is a pretty thin morality tale. Crawford and Anita Page pursue the same newly minted millionaire, who confuses who is "the pure one" and of course gets it wrong. Perhaps it's understandable, since there is a lot of dancing, legs, and playful kissing of guy friends to go around. There is an undercurrent of the double standard common for the time (how interesting this was made in the same year Woolf gave her 'A Room of One's Own' speeches); Dorothy Sebastian plays another character who must live down her past, and convince her husband to forgive her for it. The movie is silent and not in the greatest shape anymore, but that might have added a little to its charm. It's also interesting to see the short hairstyles, cloche hats, and the dialog: Offering a drink: "Li'l hot baby want a cool li'l sip?" After a big kiss: "What a service station *you* turned out to be!" By the shoreline, to a pretty song; ah youth: "It's such a pleasant thing - just to be alive!" "You want to taste all of life - don't you?" "Yes - all! I want to hold out my hands and catch it - like the sunlight." Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In the midst of the Jazz Age, two friends wrestle with love and liberation. Diana (Joan Crawford) has a flamboyant personality that masks a sweet nature, while Ann (Anita Page) is outwardly reserved, but coldly manipulative on the inside. When Diana sets her sights on the rich, debonair Ben (Johnny Mack Brown), Ann gets competitive, and successfully steals Ben away from her. It's only after they've married that Ben realizes what a cruel person Ann is, and that his heart really belongs to Diana.
      Director
      Harry Beaumont
      Production Co
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Genre
      Drama
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 5, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 24m
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