The Dancing Cavalier
by Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, and Kathy Selden, directed by Roscoe Dexter
Of course, this early talkie shouldn't be in our list because the writer himself—as Cosmo Brown—says it’s all just a dream, but when one of
our correspondents pointed out that none other than Don
Lockwood and Lina Lamont starred in  The Dancing Cavalier (née The
Dueling Cavalier), we couldn’t resist. Note: Lina Lamont’s voice was dubbed over
by writer Kathy Selden, but due to Lamont’s underhanded
ploys, Selden went uncredited in the original release.
— Dora Bailey
How’s this? We throw a modern section into the picture. The hero’s a young hoofer in
a Broadway show, right? Now he sings and he dances, right? But one night backstage,
he’s reading A Tale of Two Cities, in between numbers, see? And a sandbag falls and
hits him on the head, and he dreams he’s back during the French Revolution, right?
Well, this way we get in the modern dancing numbers—♫Charleston, Charleston♫—but
in the dream part, we can still use the costume stuff!
The Dancing Cavalier by Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown, and Kathy Selden, directed
by Roscoe Dexter (premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre,
Hollywood, California early May 1928).