A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.
Edward J. Nugent
- Reg
- (as Edward Nugent)
Edwina Booth
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery
- Wedding Guest
- (uncredited)
Geraldine Dvorak
- Garbo Look-a-like Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Anita Garvin
- Bridesmaid
- (uncredited)
Stuart MacChesney
- Child in the Wedding
- (uncredited)
Earl McCarthy
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was Joan Crawford's last silent film.
- GoofsWhen Billie enters her apartment upon her return to Paris, she removes her cloche hat and flings it onto the sofa. In the next shot as she sits on the sofa, the hat is back in her hand and she again tosses it down next to her.
- Quotes
Train Porter: Lunch is poured!
- ConnectionsEdited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
- SoundtracksShould I
(1929) (uncredited)
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
One of the main themes played throughout the movie
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A gem of a film for Crawford
I discovered this nice little film thanks to Turner Classic Movies. "Our Modern Maiden" released in 1929, was presumably a follow-up to the successful "Our Dancing Daughters" made the year before, which made Joan Crawford a star. In this film, Crawford is engaged to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (whom she married in real life too around this time). The two have a "modern" relationship, where they seem to flirt with others and party a lot with the country club set. Crawford wants to secure her boyfriend a job in Paris, so she puts the make on a wealthy businessman (Rod La Roque) who has all the right connections. While this is going on, Anita Page (who was also in "Our Dancing Daughters" with Crawford) is madly in love with Fairbanks. The two flirt, go places together, and we find out at the end the two have produced a child; this right after Fairbanks and Crawford get married! Crawford gets to be the self-sacrificing one, something that would be a common theme throughout her long film career.
The best thing about this film is Crawford herself; she is so young and pretty here, and her vivacious eyes light up the screen. Fairbanks is young and handsome, as is the entire cast. The film hearkens back to a different time and place in Hollywood. This film is silent with some sound effects, but sound films were already being made. Just a year later, silent pictures would be dead. But thank God for film, and Turner Classic Movies for bringing them to us.
The best thing about this film is Crawford herself; she is so young and pretty here, and her vivacious eyes light up the screen. Fairbanks is young and handsome, as is the entire cast. The film hearkens back to a different time and place in Hollywood. This film is silent with some sound effects, but sound films were already being made. Just a year later, silent pictures would be dead. But thank God for film, and Turner Classic Movies for bringing them to us.
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- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
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