The Flapper

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The Flapper
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
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The Flapper is a 1920 silent film starring Olive Thomas.

1 Plot
2 Background
3 Trivia
4 Cast
5 References
6 External Links

[edit] Plot

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]

[edit] 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.