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Dancing Mothers

  • 19261926
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Clara Bow, Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle, and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)
  • Drama
Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
178
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Herbert Brenon
  • Writers
    • Edmund Goulding(play)
    • Forrest Halsey
    • Edgar Selwyn(play)
  • Stars
    • Conway Tearle
    • Alice Joyce
    • Clara Bow
Top credits
  • Director
    • Herbert Brenon
  • Writers
    • Edmund Goulding(play)
    • Forrest Halsey
    • Edgar Selwyn(play)
  • Stars
    • Conway Tearle
    • Alice Joyce
    • Clara Bow
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    • 13User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Alice Joyce and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow and Conway Tearle in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow and Alice Joyce in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Clara Bow, Alice Joyce, and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Alice Joyce and Conway Tearle in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Alice Joyce and Conway Tearle in Dancing Mothers (1926)
    Alice Joyce and Conway Tearle in Dancing Mothers (1926)

    Top cast

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    Conway Tearle
    Conway Tearle
    • Jerry Naughtonas Jerry Naughton
    Alice Joyce
    Alice Joyce
    • Ethel Westcourtas Ethel Westcourt
    Clara Bow
    Clara Bow
    • Kittens Westcourtas Kittens Westcourt
    Norman Trevor
    Norman Trevor
    • Hugh Westcourtas Hugh Westcourt
    Eleanor Lawson
    • Irmaas Irma
    Dorothy Cumming
    Dorothy Cumming
    • Mrs. Mazzareneas Mrs. Mazzarene
    Donald Keith
    Donald Keith
    • Kenneth Cobbas Kenneth Cobb
    Leila Hyams
    Leila Hyams
    • Birdie Courtneyas Birdie Courtney
    Spencer Charters
    Spencer Charters
    • Butter and Egg Manas Butter and Egg Man
    • Director
      • Herbert Brenon
    • Writers
      • Edmund Goulding(play)
      • Forrest Halsey
      • Edgar Selwyn(play)
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    Storyline

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    Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.
    • flapper
    • partially lost film
    • society
    • based on play
    • Plot summary
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    • Taglines
      • Youth-Wild, Free and Reckless. Middle-Age -Out For One Last Fling. A High Steppin' Entertainment against a Kaleidoscopic Panorama of New York. (Print Ad- Sunday Vindicator, ((Youngstown, Ohio)) 29 August 1926)
    • Genre
      • Drama
    • Certificate
      • Passed
    • Parents guide
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    • Trivia
      Prints of this film--at 65 minutes--are held by the Library of Congress and the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood (1980)

    User reviews13

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Ordinary melodrama given life by the extraordinary Clara Bow!
    This little melodrama concerns a mother and her daughter falling for the same man. Mum's been the good little "stay-at-home" while her daughter and husband do the town. But Mum gets her revenge! Alice Joyce is very good as mum, and the ending is quite politically subversive - but it is the wonderful Clara Bow who steals the picture. Her vitality, as a little flapper, is mind-blowing, her beauty unsurpassed, and her gowns magnificent. Worth seeing just for the scene on the couch when Clara lies back laughing amongst the cushions - it'll make your heart race.
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    • David-240
    • Nov 8, 1999

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 1, 1926 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dygdens krokvägar
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - Pierce Avenue and 6th Street, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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