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7.3/10   54 votes
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Director:
Herbert Brenon
Writers:
Edmund Goulding (play)
Forrest Halsey (writer)
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Release Date:
1 March 1926 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community. | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited 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
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Spencer Charters ... Butter and Egg Man
Leila Hyams ... Birdie Courtney
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Additional Details

Runtime:
66 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent

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The only copy of this film that is known to survive is an incomplete 16mm version. more
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Featured in "Hollywood" (1980) more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
1926 Shocker, 27 February 2005
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Author: drednm

Dancing Mothers is a rather dull film except for the vivacious Clara Bow playing "Kittens." Also of interest are the truly ugly sets (check out the hideous pirate-themed nightclub) and the great women's clothes. Clara Bow wears some really bizarre outfits as the jazz baby who sets her sights on Conway Tearle, who plays a "famed lady killer." Tearle is old and dull but was a star in 1926. Alice Joyce is the nominal star. She was billed as "the madonna of the screen," but shows little vitality here as the mother who decides to "live." Dorothy Cumming (whose named is misspelled as "Cummings" in the credits) is good as Mazzy, and Leila Hyams, Donald Keith, Norm Trevor, and Eleanor Lawson round out the supporting cast. Worth seeing for the always-good Clara Bow and for the shocking ending. The whole film seemingly leads up to the conventional ending, but then takes a different route. Dancing Mothers was a big hit in 1926 and helped make Bow one of the biggest stars of the last 20s.

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