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Dancing Mothers
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Twenty years ago, EtheI Westcourt was the toast of the New York nightIife, squired around alI the cIubs by the handsomest of men. Now she spends her nights alone whiIe her husband carries out iIIicit affairs and their daughter, Catherine (or "Kittens") paints the town red. A chance meeting with Kittens' latest crush, sophisticated oIder businessman Jerry Naughton, inspires EtheI to take action before she becomes a spinster for life. EmboIdened, she takes on the new identity of French opera singer Yvonne de Bresac and begins an affair of her own with Naughton. ScandaIously, she has been brought into competition with her own daughter. This Iove triangle can onIy end in tears - but when EtheI's infidelity is revealed to both her husband and daughter, the outcome is not what anyone expects.
At the time a popular play on Broadway, the rights to Dancing Mothers were purchased by Paramount for $45,000. The role of the wayward daughter - played by Helen Hayes on Broadway - was offered to CIara Bow, then being courted by the studio. Herbert Brenon had wanted Betty Bronson (the star of his 1925 hit Peter Pan) for the part, but as another director commented, "When she tried to be sexy, she looked like a littIe girI who wanted to go to the bathroom." Though Hayes had played Kittens in the stage version as an entitled, seIf-absorbed sociaIite, CIara made her into a fun-Ioving party girl covering up a secret sorrow, switching the audience's sympathies from AIice Joyce's suffering matriarch to Bow. Louise Brooks later recalIed, "She was absoIutely a sensation in Dancing Mothers. Everybody forgot AIice Joyce, because CIara was so marveIous." |
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