The Flapper is a 1920 film starring silent film star Olive Thomas Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 - July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director. ... Frances Marion Frances Marion (November 18, 1888 - May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century. ... Olive Thomas (20 October 1894, Charleroi, Pennsylvania – 10 September 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American silent film actress. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Olive Thomas (20 October 1894, Charleroi, Pennsylvania – 10 September 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American silent film actress. ...
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]
Background
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. Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures, the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. ...
Trivia
This was Thomas's most famous role.
Norma Shearer had an uncredited bit part in this film.
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A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs and epitomised the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age.
But because construction of the flapper's dress was less complicated than earlier fashions, women were much more successful at home dressmaking a flapper dress which was a straight shift.
Fast flappers refused to wear corsets and rolled their stockings to the knee to enable them to dance easily.
The term flapper in the 1920s, referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior.
Flappers had their own slang, with terms like "snugglepup" (a man who frequents petting parties) and "bamey-mugging" (sex).Their dialect reflected their promiscuity and drinking habits; "I have to go see a man about a dog" often meant going to buy whiskey and a "Handcuff" or "Manacle" was an engagement or wedding ring.
Flapper dresses were straight and loose, leaving the arms bare and dropping the waistline to the hips.
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