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Dancing Mothers

  • 19261926
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
181
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POPULARITY
162,227
130,152
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
181
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
162,227
130,152
  • 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)
    Clara Bow and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)

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    Conway Tearle
    Conway Tearle
    • Jerry Naughton
    Alice Joyce
    Alice Joyce
    • Ethel Westcourt
    Clara Bow
    Clara Bow
    • Kittens Westcourt
    Norman Trevor
    Norman Trevor
    • Hugh Westcourt
    Eleanor Lawson
    • Irma
    Dorothy Cumming
    Dorothy Cumming
    • Mrs. Mazzarene
    Donald Keith
    Donald Keith
    • Kenneth Cobb
    Leila Hyams
    Leila Hyams
    • Birdie Courtney
    Spencer Charters
    Spencer Charters
    • 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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    • 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

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    6/10
    What's Sauce for the Goose...
    A typical 'saucy' 20's comedy with a rather innocuous story hiding behind a racy title. Everybody in it is filthy rich (both the Westcourt family and dissolute playboy Gerald Naughton have butlers) and there's plenty of dancing but little else when they get their partners back home.

    The use in the title of the plural belies the fact that the plot centres on just one mother: Ethel Westcourt, played by Alice Joyce. (We do not see how her friend Mrs Mazzarene, played by Dorothy Cumming, spends her nights out, but her story - as well as Naughton's - would doubtless have been far naughtier than Ethel's.)

    If Ethel's daughter Kittens (played by Clara Bow with an infectious kinetic charm the character would otherwise largely have lacked) had kept her trap shut in the incredible climactic scene in Naughton's lair where most of the cast's paths eventually collide, Ethel would not have been forced to call the bluff of both Kittens and her straying, tombstone-faced banker father Hugh (played by Norman Trevor) in the abrupt unexpected ending, which could only have been possible if Ethel had enjoyed considerable financial means of their own.
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    • Sep 9, 2018

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1926 (Finland)
    • 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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