Our Dancing Daughters
US (1928): Drama/Silent (w. musical score & sound effects)
"Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see at smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living." So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, the most celebrated novelist of the Jazz Age, about the star of Our Dancing Daughters. (Roger Fristoe, TCM.com)
Diana (Joan Crawford) is outwardly the life of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Her friend Anne (Anita Page) is thoroughly selfish and amoral. Both are attracted to Ben Blaine (Johnny Mack Brown), soon-to-be millionaire. He takes Diana's flirtations with other boys as a sign of disinterest in him and marries Anne. Big mistake. Ben and Diana begin to realize their true love for each other and plan a new life together as drunken Anne falls down the stairs to her death. Harry Beaumont directs. (IMDb)
2 nominations
· Writing (Achievement) 1928-29: Josephine Lovett
· Cinematography 1928-29: George Barnes