The film that launched Joan Crawford's career, Our Dancing Daughters was all the rage in 1928, and was one of the finest of the Jazz Age films. Crawford plays a swinging deb, “Dangerous” Diana, who drinks, dances and even strips for a laugh. She falls in love with a millionaire's son (Johnny Mack Brown), but he marries instead a secret-drinking blonde (Anita Page), with disastrous results. The film is famous for its frenzied dancing scenes, Crawford, the Charleston and champagne making an unforgettable trio; and it all takes place in lavishly upholstered mansions that epitomized the fantasy-reality of MGM set-designer Cedric Gibbons. Women crowded the theaters to see how their changing roles were reflected in Our Dancing Daughters; not surprisingly, however, the film is less an orgy of liberation than a dramatic encapsulation of the ambiguities of the era. While Anita Page drinks herself to death, a true, virtuous self emerges from underneath the wild exterior of “Dangerous” Diana. But the urgency that produced the short hair and shorter skirts isn't erased by twists of plot, and Our Dancing Daughters remains a splendid self-portrait of late-twenties high life, with its explosive brew of money, alcohol and a mythical quest for freedom.