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OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
Introduced by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director and Linda Zagaria, Vice-President of the Art Deco Society of New York.
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner ♪
U.S., 1928
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Starring Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Anita Page
Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons
Approx. 83 min. 35mm.
In the picture that landed her in the MGM heavens, jazz baby Joan Crawford just can’t stop doing the Charleston, as marriages crash and burn around her. The first movie designed in Pure Deco, effectively used to symbolize youth and licentiousness. Film star (later decorator) William Haines thought the decor looked like a church crossed with a Grauman theatre.
Reviews
“The first American movie to fully exploit new modernist decor... Took the country by storm.”
“Exerted a huge influence on American design as the country gleefully took up its Art Deco gospel.”
– Howard Mandelbaum and Eric Myers, Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood