Dancing Days (film) explained

Dancing Days
Director:Albert H. Kelley
Starring:Helene Chadwick
Forrest Stanley
Lillian Rich
Cinematography:H. Lyman Broening
Studio:B.P. Schulberg Productions
Distributor:Preferred Pictures
Runtime:65 minutes
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

Dancing Days is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Albert H. Kelley and starring Helene Chadwick, Forrest Stanley, and Lillian Rich.[1] [2] It is based on the 1910 novel of the same name by the British writer J.J. Bell.[3] The films depicts a married man who falls in love with a flapper, and is increasingly dominated by his new love interest.

Synopsis

After ten years of marriage to Alice, Ralph Hedman is introduced by his brother to the flapper Lillian Loring and his eye begins to wander. The new woman seems to have complete control over him. When he falls ill, she tries to recover him by getting him to dance the Charleston. Alice accepts defeat, but a chance car accident brings them back together.

Cast

Preservation

Prints of Dancing Days are held in the collections of the Museum Of Modern Art and Library and Archives Canada.[4]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Munden p. 163
  2. Connelly p. 336
  3. https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DancingDays1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Dancing Days
  4. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2944/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Dancing Days