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The Flapper
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| The Flapper | |
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Produced by | Alan Crosland |
| Written by | Frances Marion |
| Starring | Olive Thomas, Warren Cook |
| Release date(s) | 10 May 1920 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
| IMDb profile | |
The Flapper is a 1920 silent film starring Olive Thomas.
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The title of 'The Flapper' is ironic, as this movie's heroine is an innocent ingenue who merely pretends to be a jazz-baby flapper. The beautiful Olive Thomas plays 16-year-old Genevieve King Genevieve (nicknamed 'Ginger' for her high spirits) is sent off to the girls' seminary run by strict disciplinarian Mrs Paddles. Distinguished older man Richard Channing rides past the seminary every day, prompting romantic fantasies among the schoolgirls. When 16-year-old Ginger connives a sleigh ride with Channing, she tells him she's 'almost twenty'. A student named Hortense heists the swag and runs off with her henchman Thomas Morran.[1]
African-Americans are seen quite prominently in this film, but only as musicians and waiters with no dialogue. The events in the lives of Ginger King and another character are presented as incidents in a (non-fiction) newsreel at the end of the movie. This same device was later used in Citizen Kane.
- This was Thomas' most famous role.
- Norma Shearer had an uncredited bit part in this film.
- Olive Thomas
- Warren Cook
- Theodore Westman Jr.
- Katherine Johnston
- Arthur Housman
- Louise Lindroth
- Charles Craig
- William P. Carleton
- Marcia Harris
- Bobby Connelly
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