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The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland , the film was the first in the United States to portray the " flapper " lifestyle, which became a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s.
The first appearance of the flapper style [b] in the United States came from the popular 1920 Frances Marion film The Flapper, starring Olive Thomas. [43] Thomas starred in a similar role in 1917, though it was not until The Flapper that the term was used. In her final movies, she was seen as the flapper image. [44]
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer.Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper.
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Articles relating to flappers and their depictions, a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
1922 Life cover: "The Flapper" by F. X. Leyendecker. Franz Xavier Leyendecker was born in Montabaur, Germany on January 19, 1876. In 1884 he immigrated with his parents and three siblings to Chicago where an uncle owned the McAvoy Brewery. In Chicago, he studied at the Art Institute. [2]
Flapper Fanny Says was a single-panel daily cartoon series starting on January 26, 1925, with a Sunday page (called Flapper Fanny) following on August 7, 1932. [1] Created by Ethel Hays, each episode featured a flapper illustration and a witticism. [2] The Sunday strip concluded on December 8, 1935; the daily panel continued until June 29, 1940 ...