Our Dancing Daughters

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.

Cast

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This might have made for a better story had either of the women vying for the hand of millionaire "Ben" (Johnny Mack Brown) actually had a real man to chase. The parade of rather similar, foppish, characters on offer for them here really do make you wonder whey they didn't just pick each other. Exce...

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