Our Dancing Daughters
THE JAZZ-MAD GIRL, THE JAZZ-MAD WHIRL: A romance of flaming youth, the children of the rich, and the jazz-mad age.
1928 · 1h 24m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Harry Beaumont
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Our Dancing Daughters
Overview
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Director and cast
- Harry Beaumont Director
- Joan Crawford as Diana 'Di' Medford
- Johnny Mack Brown as Ben Blaine
- Nils Asther as Norman
- Dorothy Sebastian as Beatrice 'Bea'
- Anita Page as Ann 'Annikins'
- Kathlyn Williams as Ann's Mother
- Edward Nugent as Freddie
- Dorothy Cumming as Diana's Mother
- Huntley Gordon as Diana's Father
- Evelyn Hall as Freddie's Mother
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