Our Dancing Daughters

This breezy, cautionary tale of Jazz Age youth pushed Joan Crawford, already known in the Hollywood community for her uninhibited dancing, to center stage via some vigorous shimmying. Thoroughly modern Diana Medford (Crawford) lives for dancing and drinking, though she's really a decent girl at heart. She falls in love with millionaire dreamboat Ben Blaine (John Mack Brown), but loses him to the hard-drinking Ann (Anita Page), whose flapper antics are driven by a scheming mother (Kathlyn Williams) determined that her girl will make a good marriage. Shortly after the wedding, Ann falls down a flight of steps in a drunken stupor and is killed. Ben realizes that he re...