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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.
Deutsch: The Flapper ist eine amerikanische Stummfilmkomödie aus dem Jahr 1920 mit Olive Thomas in der Hauptrolle. Unter der Regie von Alan Crosland war der Film der erste in den Vereinigten Staaten, der den "Flapper"-Lebensstil porträtierte, der in den 1920er Jahren zu einer kulturellen Modeerscheinung werden sollte.
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.
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce. By November 1910, the word was popular enough for A. E. James to begin a series of stories in the London Magazine featuring the misadventures of a pretty fifteen-year-old girl and titled "Her Majesty the ...
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 Jesse L. Lasky 's film production company Famous Players–Lasky (later Paramount Pictures ) when he was hired by Warner Bros. to work at their ...
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
The Flapper: 1920 Extra Selznick Pictures [11] The Stealers: 1920 Julia Martin Robertson-Cole Studios, Inc. [12] Way Down East: 1920 Barn dancer United Artists [13] The Restless Sex: 1920 Extra Cosmopolitan Productions [11] The Sign on the Door: 1921 Uncredited Edited out First National Pictures [11] Torchy's Millions: 1921 Unknown Educational ...
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