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[[caption-width-right:350:Daughters, dancing.]]

''Our Dancing Daughters'' is a silent film drama made in 1928.

Creator/JoanCrawford stars as Diana Medford, a beautiful and popular young woman who appears to be spoiled but is actually a moral upright person. She's best friends with Ann, a gold-digging flapper. Both are in love with Ben Blaine, a millionaire. Ben thinks that Diana is disinterested in him because she flirts with everyone, and marries Ann, who only wants his money. Diana is going to leave at this distressing news. Ben's sister decides to throw Diana a going-away party, which Ann wants to attend with her real love, Freddie. Ben attends behind Ann's back. What will happen when Diana and Ann see each other?

StarMakingRole for Crawford, who had gotten a couple of LoveInterest parts with MGM but became one of the biggest actresses at the studio with the success of this film. Followed by ''Film/OurModernMaidens'' and ''Film/OurBlushingBrides'', which weren't sequels (there was no continuity) but dealt with similar themes, all starring Crawford as a young woman in New York finding love and romance.
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!!Tropes used by the film:

* AlphaBitch: Good Lord, ''Ann''.
* BetaCouple: Beatrice and Norman, the girl with the tarnished past and her new husband.
* DancesAndBalls: Multiple fancy balls and dances attended by the New York jet-set that Diana and her friends are part of.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Ann conveniently falls down a set of stairs and breaks her neck (not that she didn't deserve it), so that Diana and Ben can be together.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Ann tumbles down a flight of stairs and breaks her neck after her VillainousBreakdown.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: The opening shot. The camera focuses on Diana's feet in front of a mirror as she puts some underwear on--and then dances a jig.
* TheFlapper: This really could have been called ''Flapper: The Movie''. Diana and her friends are all archetypal examples of the flapper--young, wearing fancy dresses, sporting short haircuts, drinking, dancing, having sex.
* FirstGirlWins: Diana gets Ben in the end.
* GaussianGirl: Lots of this with Crawford.
* GenteelInterbellumSetting: New York in TheRoaringTwenties.
* GoldDigger: Ann, who comes from an upper-class but apparently broke family, is being groomed by her mother to marry rich.
* GoodBadGirl: Diana may flirt with everyone and is a total party girl, but she's virtuous and caring about everyone.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Ann tries to shame Diana when she catches her and Ben sharing a tender moment despite the fact that she's been cheating on Ben with Freddie almost since the start of their marriage.
** Ben also marries Ann instead of Diana because he doesn't like how Diana flirts with everyone. This despite the fact he's dating two women ''at the same time'' who have both made it clear they want to marry him.
* IdleRich: Not a single one of these young twentysomethings seem to need to work, instead being supported by their wealthy families. Justified in the case of Ben who apparently has inherited millions.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Ann is such a bitch to everyone that by the end she was just begging to fall down the stairs and break her neck.
* LoveTriangle: Ann lures a gullible Ben away from Diana.
* MealTicket: Ben represents a chance for Ann and her mother to recover their family's financial status.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Ann plays on this to lure Ben away from Diana (in this film "modern" is a code word for "slutty"). Another character feels ashamed of her free-love past, especially after her husband freaks out when some of her old boyfriends stop over.
* OnlySixFaces: A weird live-action example. All the women have the same fluffy bob and all the men have dark, slicked back hair in the same style. It can be hard to tell everyone apart when they're all in the same scene.
* PlayingSick: Ann lies about this in order to fool Ben.
* QuipToBlack: A washerwoman who Ann had just been mocking holds up one of her wrists draped in many bracelets. "Them's won't help her now."
* TheRoaringTwenties
* SilenceIsGolden: ''Our Dancing Daughters'' was released during the brief 1927-29 window where silent films were transitioning to sound. As a consequence, it does not have any dialogue, but it does have a recorded sound track with music and sound effects.
* ThematicSeries: First of three films starring Joan Crawford as a young woman in New York falling in love, followed by ''Our Modern Maidens'' and ''Film/OurBlushingBrides''.
* {{Twenties Bob|Haircut}}: All the women have one.