Dance Madness

Dance Madness
Theatrical poster
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
Release date
  • January 4, 1926 (1926-01-04)
Running time
 70 mins.
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

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]

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

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Dance Madness at silentera.com
  2. ↑ Arne Andersen's - Lost Film Files (Metro-MGM - silentsaregolden.com Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ 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.


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