THE FLAPPER (1920) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Alan Crosland
Olive Thomas, Theodore Westman Jr.,
William P. Carlton Jr., Warren Cook
The fun-loving daughter of a stern-faced senator gets sent off to a boarding school just outside New York City, where she's wooed by a military cadet and a rich guy on a horse. Eventually she falls in with a couple of jewel thieves and returns home masquerading as a vamp, but she's still just a sweet young senator's daughter at heart, and everything works out fine in the end. A star vehicle for ex-Ziegfeld Follies headliner Olive Thomas, who died under gruesome circumstances the year of the picture's release. Frivolous but nicely done, with a seemingly effortless performance by one of the silent era's great forgotten stars.
