The Flapper -1920 - Olive Thomas – A charming actress - Delightful and clever comedy – Full movie

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The Flapper, 10 May 1920, is an adorable featured movie about a teenage schoolgirl, Ginger King (Olive Thomas), who dreams of lovers and jazz cabarets, wanting to escape her mundane life at boarding school and ride off into the sunset with the handsome older man all the schoolgirls are in love with, Richard Channing (William P. Carleton). She fools Channing into thinking she's 20, and he takes her to a country club, but her "romantic night" is ruined when the bad girl (though she looks to be 40!) at school, Hortense, gets in her way. Throughout the rest of the film, Ginger pursues her dreams and visits 1920's nightclubs, wears glamorous clothes, but finds that being a flapper is not easy when she gets involved in a mysterious jewel heist and more! "The Flapper" was written by Frances Marion, who was then writing scenarios for Mary Pickford. This film may have, in some level of development, been considered a Pickford vehicle; and, it's easy to imagine her in the lead. For whatever reasons, Thomas got the assignment. It was kept in the family, as Olive Thomas was then Mrs. Pickford (married to Jack Pickford, Mary's brother). Olive Thomas was, in the 1917-20 era, considered the most beautiful girl in Hollywoodland. She was certainly very good looking. She is said to have violet-blue eyes, the same a Liz Taylor. Men were utterly enthralled with her. She married the brother of Mary Pickford, who she certainly was prettier than. She had a very horrible and accidental young death. Olive Thomas ( Oliva R. Duffy) (Born October 20, 1894, Charleroi, Pennsylvania – Died September 10, 1920 (aged 25) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American silent film actress and model. Thomas began her career as an illustrators' model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show, The Midnight Frolic. In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in over twenty features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of silent film star Mary Pickford. On September 10, 1920, Thomas died of acute nephritis in Paris five days after consuming mercury bichloride. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization due to the poison and Thomas' subsequent death were the subject of media speculation. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals. Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director. Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended Dartmouth College. Crosland began his career in the motion picture industry in 1912 at Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York. By 1917, he was directing feature-length films and in 1920 directed Olive Thomas in The Flapper, one of her final films before her death in September of that year. In 1925, Crosland was working for Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount Pictures) when he was hired by Warner Bros. He had directed several silent films for Warner's including directing Don Juan starring John Barrymore in 1926. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue. He was chosen to direct Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927). The film would make him famous as the first of the new talkies that changed the course of motion pictures. Crosland died in 1936 at the age of 41 as a result of an automobile accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Director: Alan Crosland Writers: Frances Marion (screenplay), Frances Marion (story) Cinematography by John W. Brown Production Co: Selznick Pictures Corporation Cast: Olive Thomas ... Genevieve King Theodore Westman Jr. ... Bill Forbes William P. Carleton ... Richard Channing (as W.P. Carleton) Warren Cook ... Sen. King - Ginger's Father Katherine Johnston ... Hortense ressources: www.wikipedia.org, www.imdb.com The soundtrack is a derivative work of At Rest, Americana, Reign, Meditation_Impromptu_02, Meditation_Impropmptu_03, Dream Culture, Silver Blue Light, Windswept, Music For Manatees, Americana, Just as Soon, Night on the Docks – Sax, Cool Vibes, Duet Musette, Sovereign_Quarter, Night on the Docks – Trumpet, At Launch, Conflicted, Guess Who, Pennsylvania Rose, Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod (http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ ), licensed under CC BY 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. No changes were made to the original music.