The Flapper

I believe that all 3 of the comments for The Flapper were written by men, who didn't rate it very high. This movie was obviously made to appeal to the women, or more appropriately girls, of the day. I'm a girl and I rate it very high. The Flapper is an adorable 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 is all fluff, but so cute! Olive Thomas shows a definite comedic flair in this movie, and it's so sad that she didn't get to go on with her career. The Flapper is a treasure, not just because of it's one of Olive Thomas' few surviving movies, but because it's a good, solid silent comedy that any silent film fan should see (whether you like chick flicks or not).