Joan Crawford - The Quintessential Flapper
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Uploaded by Ravenclawed on Sep 3, 2010
`Our Dancing Daughters' (1928) was a sensation upon its release. The film's costuming and Art Deco sets, designed by Cecil Beaton, who had personally attended the famous 1924 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which began the Art Deco movement, became particularly influential.
Other than its spectacular visuals and its sense of zeitgeist, the film's success can be attributed to the casting against type of its three main stars - the rough-and-tumble Dorothy Sebastian as a vulnerable girl with a secret, sweet Anita Page as a `rich bitch', and Joan as a girl with a bad reputation which, as it transpires, she doesn't really deserve.
Prudish on some matters but surprisingly frank on others, `Our Dancing Daughters' is a predecessor to the typical `Pre-Code' sound film, and a must-see for any silent film fan.
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