Dancing Mothers (1926)

Director:

Herbert Brenon

Writers:

Edmund Goulding (play)
Forrest Halsey (writer)

Release Date:

1 March 1926 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community. |

Plot Keywords:

Partially Lost Film | Society | Based On Play

Cast

Alice Joyce	...	Ethel Westcourt
Conway Tearle	...	Jerry Naughton
Clara Bow	...	Kittens Westcourt
Donald Keith	...	Kenneth Cobb
Dorothy Cumming	...	Mrs. Massarene
Eleanor Lawson	...	Irma
Norman Trevor	...	Hugh Westcourt
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Spencer Charters	...	Butter and Egg Man
Leila Hyams	...	Birdie Courtney

Runtime:

66 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Trivia:

Prints of this film are held by the Library of Congress and the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Hollywood" (1980)

The It Girl at her itsiest

To see the kind of radiance one generally only finds in Edie

Sedgwick (in her might-as-well-be-silent Warhol movies), check

out the scene with racy Clara Bow in a fatcat's apartment while

he's away, swilling his liquor and kicking up her heels on his

couch. Literally. (Was this scene the inspiration for the invasion of

Jerry Lewis' house in THE KING OF COMEDY?) Guzzling gallons

of expensive booze and tracing the line of warmth down her

tummy, Bow is a miraculous fireworks show of life-love and gay

impiety. This is star acting! Our biggest names o\f the moment

seem feeble and class-free by contrast.