JOAN CRAWFORD Filmography
Our Dancing Daughters - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1928 (silent)

Cast Includes:

Joan Crawford .... Diana Medford
Johnny Mack Brown .... Ben Blaine
Nils Asther .... Norman
Dorothy Sebastian .... Beatrice
Anita Page (I) .... Anne
Kathlyn Williams .... Ann's Mother
Edward J. Nugent .... Freddie
Dorothy Cumming (I) .... Anne's mother
Huntley Gordon .... Diana's father
Evelyn Hall (I) .... Freddie's mother
Sam De Grasse (I) .... Freddie's father

Our Dancing Daughters is an interesting example illustrating that being true to yourself is better than letting others shape you to their ends.

A young Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian play three wild girls in the early Jazz age who are coming to terms with their place in society and the repercussions of their "flapper" ways. Crawford is "dangerous" Diana, wild, intelligent, and sexual beyond her years.

In this silent film, Crawford truly became a star. Here, she is a marvelously liberated character, the type of woman Hollywood frequently featured in the late silent period.

Our Dancing Daughters had a jazzy original score written for it and the film comes alive during the several large party/dance scenes. The film also features several moments of synchronized sound, mostly involving applause from the crowd. It is Joan's breakout film and therefore truly worth the watch.