The flapper
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| Original title | The flapper |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Crosland |
| script | Frances Marion |
| production | Myron Selznick |
| camera | John W. Brown |
| cut | HJ McCord |
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The flapper is an American silent film - comedy from 1920 with Olive Thomas in the lead role. The film,directed by Alan Crosland , was the first in the United States toportraythe style of the flappers .
action
Sixteen-year-old Genevieve 'Ginger' King lives with a wealthy family in the boring town of Orange Springs, Florida , where it is already considered scandalous to have a soft drink with a boy . Due to her questionable behavior and her search for an exciting life, her father decides to send her to the boarding school Mrs. Paddles' School for Young Ladies in Lake Placid , which is run by the strict Mrs. Paddles.
Despite the austerity there, the girls enjoy the flapper lifestyle, which also includes flirting. The older man Richard Channing comes by the boarding school every day and triggers romantic fantasies in the students. When Ginger goes on a sleigh ride with Channing, she lies about her age and claims to be "about twenty". Ginger quickly falls in love with him. Ginger soon runs into trouble with the school administration as she sneaks into the local country club where Channing is having a party. Her classmate Hortense, who is described as "a moth among butterflies", had informed the headmistress about it. Her motive was to rob the school safe without being disturbed by the headmistress and then to flee with her friend Thomas Morran. On the way back from school, Ginger visits a hotel in New York City where Hortense and Thomas are staying because of an imprecisely worded tip she receives . You get them to take suitcases with stolen valuables like fancy clothes and jewelry for safekeeping.
Knowing that Channing is going to Orange Springs on a yacht, Ginger decides to use the clothing and jewelry to present herself as a more mature, well-dressed, "experienced woman" on her return. However, her plan fails and her father thinks she is lying when she claims it was a joke. Then investigators show up asking why she stole the loot, and both her admirers Bill and Channing think she is an evil woman. Hortense and her boyfriend show up in Orange Springs to get their prey back. Her subsequent capture by the police frees Ginger and restores her reputation.
The events in the life of Ginger King and one other person are presented in the form of a (non-fictional) newsreel at the end of the film .
production
- Frances Marion wrote the script that popularized the term "flapper" in the United States in the 1920s.
- Olive Thomas only appeared in two other films after appearing in The Flapper before she died in Paris in September 1920.
publication
- The Flapper is now in the public domain and can therefore be used without restrictions.
- In 2005, The Flapper by Milestone Collection was released on DVD as part of The Olive Thomas Collection .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c quotations are translations of the subtitles of The Flapper . "Bill Sprague Collection -THE FLAPPER Olive Thomas PUBLIC DOMAIN" , Internet Archive , San Francisco, California. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ↑ Kelly Boyer SAGES: Flappers: A Guide to an American Subculture . ABC-CLIO, 2010, ISBN 0-313-37690-5 , p. 89.
- ↑ Denise Lowe: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895-1930: 1895-1930 . Haworth Press, 2005, ISBN 0-7890-1843-8 , p. 526 .
- ^ "The Flapper, 1920" , Public Domain Movies — Feature Films in the Public Domain. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ Gary Giddins: Rediscovering Maurice Elvey's Masterpiece . nysun.com. May 17, 2005. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
Web links
- The Flapper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Flapper as a complete film in the Internet Archive
- The Flapper in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Review in Variety 1920