Dancing Mothers

1926
Passed
1h 6m

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Clara Bow, Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle, and Norman Trevor in Dancing Mothers (1926)

A young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.A young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.A young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.

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6.7/10

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- 2 wins

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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.

Quotes
Mrs. Mazzarene: I warn you--you're playing with fire.
Ethel Westcourt: I'm playing with life!

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Featured in Hollywood (1980)

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Solid adaptation of fine twenties play

I fell in love with this play when I read it in the Burns Mantle Best Play series - it was certainly the best of its year and perhaps of the decade in both its characterizations and structure and in the morality tale that was dead on for its time. This was the sort of thing that would have been remade as an early talkie if the stock market crash hadn't changed that flapper world forever.

The plot is laid out here in other reviews. Alice Joyce's leading performance and Clara Bow's supporting one are both of award calibre as is the screenplay adaptation. It is competently directed and photographed, nothing special in the technical categories. What stands out is the writing and the acting of the women. Startling and special. Very worth seeking out.