View Posters Login

Dancing Mothers

Dancing Mothers One sheet movie poster for the 1926 silent film "Dancing Mothers ", produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It stars Conway Tearle, Alice Joyce, and Clara Bow. Movie Information Title: Dancing Mothers Release Year: 1926 Director: Herbert Brenon Written by: The film is based on a play by Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Goulding, with a screenplay by Forrest Halsey. Plot: The story follows Ethel Westcourt (Alice Joyce), a neglected wife who stays home while her flapper daughter Kittens (Clara Bow) parties and her husband Hugh has an affair. At a friend's urging, Ethel goes out on her own, adopts an alias, and encounters a man named Jerry Naughton (Conway Tearle) who becomes interested in her. Ethel continues seeing him to protect her daughter, leading to dramatic confrontations about the double standards of the era.