description Our Dancing Daughters Overview
Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 drama film exploring themes of societal change during the 1920s. Directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joan Crawford, the movie utilized synchronized musical scores and sound effects through innovative sound-on-disc and sound-on-film techniques. Hunt Stromberg produced this silent picture with audible accompaniment.
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info Our Dancing Daughters Specifications
| Country | United States |
| Year | 1928 |
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Is Our Dancing Daughters a silent film or a talkie?
Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 film that used synchronized musical scores and sound effects through early sound-on-disc and sound-on-film techniques, but it does not feature spoken dialogue. It falls into the transitional period between silent cinema and the full talkie era that began with The Jazz Singer in 1927.
Who starred in Our Dancing Daughters (1928)?
Our Dancing Daughters stars Joan Crawford in her breakout role as the flapper Diana Medford, alongside Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian. The film's success helped establish Crawford as one of MGM's biggest stars of the era.
Who directed Our Dancing Daughters?
Our Dancing Daughters was directed by Harry Beaumont for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Beaumont was a prolific contract director at MGM who also directed Crawford in several other films during this period.
What is Our Dancing Daughters about?
Our Dancing Daughters explores the culture of wealthy young flappers in 1920s Jazz Age society, focusing on Joan Crawford's character Diana, who is outwardly wild but morally principled compared to her social circle. The film captured the era's anxieties about changing gender roles and social mores.
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