Mother Knows Best (1928)
1h 30m
Running Time
October 28, 1928Release Date
Mother Knows Best (1928)
1h 30m
Running Time
October 28, 1928Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
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Cast & Crew.

Madge Bellamy
Sally Quail

Louise Dresser
Ma Quail

Barry Norton
Boy

Albert Gran
Sam Kingston

Stuart Erwin
Ben

Lucien Littlefield
Pa Quail

Alyce McCormick
Bessie

Anne Shirley
Sally, as a child
Details.
This Movie Is About.
lost film
partial sound
Wiki.
Mother Knows Best is a lost 1928 American sound part-talkie film directed by John G. Blystone, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, fictionalizing the life of vaudevillian Elsie Janis. The film was Fox's first part talkie, using the Movietone sound system which had primarily been used for synchronised music scores and effects tracks in Fox features beforehand, although as early as Mother Machree (1928), a single synchronous singing sequence was included in the film. The talking sequences in Mother Knows Best were directed by actor Charles Judels, while the synchronized sequences were directed by John G. Blystone. The film starred Madge Bellamy, with Louise Dresser as her domineering mother, Barry Norton, and Albert Gran.