Dance Madness
Dance Madness is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard based upon a script by Frederica Sagor. The film starred Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel, and Hedda Hopper.[1] Dance Madness is now considered to be a lost film.[2]
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| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Written by | Frederica Sagor |
| Starring | Claire Windsor Conrad Nagel Hedda Hopper |
| Cinematography | John Arnold William H. Daniels |
| Edited by | William LeVanway |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 70 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
According to the credited screenwriter, Frederica Sagor, Dance Madness was "patently a rewrite" of The Guardsman, a work by Ferenc Molnár that was later directly adapted for film. Sagor notes the screenplay was not written by her, but by Alice D. G. Miller, and she only provided script rewrites.[3]
Plot
May (Claire Windsor) is married to Roger (Conrad Nagel), an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer (Hedda Hopper) and trying to seduce him.
Cast
- Conrad Nagel as Roger Halladay
- Claire Windsor as May Russell
- Hedda Hopper as Valentina
- Douglas Gilmore as Bud
- Mario Carillo as Strokoff
- Elmo Billings
- Estelle Clark as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Joyzelle Joyner as Dancer (uncredited)
- Belva McKay as Minor Role (uncredited)
References
- Progressive Silent Film List: Dance Madness at silentera.com
- Arne Andersen's - Lost Film Files (Metro-MGM - silentsaregolden.com Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- Mass, Frederica Sagor (1999). The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 65–67. ISBN 0-8131-2122-1.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dance Madness. |
- Dance Madness at IMDb
- Dance Madness at AllMovie
- Stills at silenthollywood.com