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The Mad Dancer
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Wikipedia article
'The Mad Dancer' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Ann Pennington, Johnnie Walker, and Coit Albertson.Munden p. 93.
Synopsis
Mimi, a dancer who lives in the Latin Quarter of Paris, poses nude for a sculpture. When her father commits suicide she moves to the United States but finds her relatives there disapprove of her. She becomes engaged to the son of an American senator, but her past threatens to catch up with her.
Cast
Production
'The Mad Dancer' was filmed at the Tec-Art Studio in New York City.Koszarski p. 78. Pennington, who had performed in the 'Ziegfeld Follies' and 'George White's Scandals', appeared nude for the modeling scene for the sculpture.[https://silenthollywood.com/annpennington.html Ann Pennington biography] at silenthollywood.com At the time, brief stationary nudity, similar to a tableau vivant, appeared in a few American films with scenes involving women posing for painters or sculptors. As an experiment, one scene involving Pennington and Vincent Lopez and his band was broadcast over the radio on Newark, New Jersey station WJZ (today WABC of New York City) while being filming."[http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Radio%20Digest/RadioDigest-25-01-24.pdf Ann Pennington Broadcasts]," 'Radio Digest', January 21, 1925, p. 3. Includes a still of Pennington with Vincent Lopez and members of his band.
Preservation
Prints of 'The Mad Dancer' are held in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3245/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'The Mad Dancer']
References
Bibliography
* Koszarski, Richard (2008). 'Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff'. Rutgers University Press.
* Munden, Kenneth White (1997). 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press.
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