# The Flapper

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Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| | Olive Thomas |
| | Warren Cook |
| | Arthur Housman |
| | Charles Craig |
| | Eileen Percy |
| | Norma Shearer |
| | William P. Carleton |
| | Marcia Harris |
| | Bobby Connelly |
| Crew ||
| Production company | Selznick Pictures |
| Distributor | Netflix |
| Director | Alan Crosland (d. 1936) |
| Producer | Myron Selznick (d. 1944) |
| Screenwriter | Frances Marion (d. 1973) |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1973, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 50 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
Selznick Pictures
Lewis J. Selznick presents
OLIVE THOMAS in THE FLAPPER By Frances Marion
Selznick Pictures
Passed by the National Board of Review
Directed by ALAN CROSLAND
Photographed by JACK BROWN
Edited by H. J. McCORD
Art Titles by VERNON CALDWELL
Copyright 1920 Selznick Pictures Corporation
CAST OF CHARACTERS
| Genevieve King Bill E. Forbes Richard Channing Senator King Hortense Tom Morran Elmira Buttons Miss Paddles | OLIVE THOMAS Theodore Westman, Jr. Wm. P. Carlton, Jr. Warren Cook Katherine Johnston Arthur Johnston Frances Marshall Marcia Harris |
Imagine a town where they didn't even have a saloon to close——and there you have ORANGE SPRINGS.
A church social was a sporting event. Girls who hobnobbed at the soda fountain were talked about.
Now you can sympathise with a certain girl living there
Genevieve King—Miss Olive Thomas
You would hardly call the little Kings roughnecks.
BILL E. FORBES
About to enter the world of romance and a northern military academy.
Genevieve's father, Senator King—a very stern man in the eyes of his oppressed children.
The housekeeper, Miss Elmira Buttons, an old school disciplinarian.
"Miss Paddles' school would be just the place for her."
Now you can appreciate the amazing change when Genevieve's found herself a few weeks later, at a boarding school near New York.
Limbs of Satan from old family trees.
The ONCE OVER.
Hortense, a moth among the butterflies, taken into the school by the charitable principal.
Across the way—a school for budding Pershings.
CHEST HIGH
When it came to tooting his own horn, Bill E. Forbes made Sousa's band sound like a sick canary.
"Then the sailors got fresh and I mopped up the ground with 'em."
HERO WORSHIP.
"The cops kept me from knocking 'em all cold."
"Gee! I bet he could'a licked the cops!"
"I betcha!"
Boarding school studies are so dull—
But one study they all enjoyed——the natural history of the human male.
Their favorite specimen passed the school daily—a mysterious and romantic figure—
Richard Channing
They just knew he was notorious, or very gay, or perhaps an English lord—this made it so romantic.
"He looks delightfully wild and dangerous!"
"Perhaps he's a professional gambler!"
"Or an actor!"
"He might even be a wife-beater!"
"The idea! My heart tells me he hasn't any wife to beat——yet."
To meet Bill E. Forbes again thus!—Oh joy!—Oh bliss!—Oh romance!
"Girls, isn't that Forbes man a wonderful athlete?"
"He's wounded!"
"Call the ambulance. I've busted a couple o' my legs."
"Oh Bill, is there anything I can do for you?"
"You might hold my head."
"Aw gee! He ain't no hero!"
"Ski?——huh! I'll teach you to ski—"
WHEE
"——I wrote these winter sports!"
"You don't happen to know our Mystery Man, do you?"
"Don't you think he looks like a Greek god?"
"He looks like a fried egg to me."
"He rides like an old woman."
"I suppose you are an expert!"
"Sure! Ever since I was six years old I've been an EXPERT!"
"Wouldn't it be great to play hookey and go riding some day?"
"Yeh—wouldn't it——how about tomorrow?"
"You seem to be having a busy day."
The call-down was worth it—for the girls now called her Ginger.
"Yesterday he brushed his teeth——three times!"
"——and washed behind his ears!"
"Sumpin' terrible's wrong with him."
"Isn't this romantic!"
It wasn't a darn bit romantic to Bill E. Forbes. He never had handled a horse before."
"Did you notice a gentleman driving away in a sleigh?"
"No, but I saw a kid chasing one."
"At present I am a guest at Miss Paddles' school."
"I pass there every day—nice lot of youngsters."
"We're nothing of the kind. They force us to act like silly youngsters, but——"
"—can you imagine a woman of my age having to wear a Peter Thompson?"
"How old are you?"
"Oh—h—h, about twenty."
"We're giving a dance at the Country Club tonight. Can you go?"
"Yes——I'll go."
"What time shall I call?"
"Don't call. I'll meet you there—at ten."
"You wouldn't dare—"
"A woman dares anything for the man she loves."
"To think she's leading a double life! Isn't it wonderful!"
Poor Bill E. Forbes had the cornet blues.
"Goodness gracious! Another of my lovers!"
R.C.
MR. RICHARD CHANNING
HEART TROUBLE!
"Poor Richard! How he loves me!"
Ten o'clock
Gingers chauffeur sometimes delivered groceries to the school in this limousine.
"You ought to be arrested—luring a sixteen-year-old girl out at night!"
"My fan!"
"That's what you get for being nice to a kid of that sap-headed, pin-feathered age."
So Ginger decides to end it all and teach him a terrible lesson.
"Everything stealable is stolen."
"We must keep it quiet or the school will be disgraced."
"I will settle all the losses."
If life offered so many adventures, why die?
In a New York hotel.——
To fugitives, every stranger looks like a bloodhound.
"I saw that Channing guy in the lobby. He might know of the school job."
"You're right. That King kid, Ginger, will be going home on her vacation tomorrow. We'll make her the goat."
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENTGEORGE W. E. ATKINE, VICE-PRESIDENT
D ATDOBBS FERRY NY
#14 NY C JRS 22  NYC 10:00 AM MON 1ST 1920
MISS GENEVIEVE KING  C/O HILLCREST SCHOOL DOBBS FERRY NY IF YOU WILL STOP AT THE VANDER-DYKE HOTEL ON YOU WAY HOME YOU WILL LEARN SOMETHING OF GREAT INTEREST TO YOU  A FRIEND  9:50 AM
Alone in the wicked city.
Ginger had read of a girl meeting a prince by doing this.
"Hello, Peaches-and-Cream, wither bound?"
HOMEWARD BOUND.
THE HIGHEST CLASS TALKING MACHINE IN THE WORLD 5th AVEN. AT 53th ST.
THE MYSTERIOUS APPOINTMENT
"We were eloping. We only stole the stuff for an adventure."
"Sure, didn't Old Girl Paddles tell you the stuff had been returned?"
"Mr. Channing is stopping here too."
"Why not dine with us and stay overnight?"
Back home at Orange Springs Bill E. Forbes made up his mind to stand in with the family.
Ginger's first experience is "stepping out."
"How disappointing! I thought New York cafes were filled with wild women and those terrible Wall Street gamblers."
Oh sweet revenge—
to be seen by Channing in this gay night life.
"Does Miss Paddles know you're out?"
"You talk as if I were still at that 'sap-headed, pin-feathered' age."
"Do you live in New York?"
"Orange Springs! Why, a crowd of us leave tomorrow to join a yachting party there. Better take the same train."
"I'm afraid that wild kid is getting into trouble."
"He treats me like a child."
"Of course. That kind of man likes only women of experience."
"Well, I'm getting it as fast as I can."
Can you imagine!
It was ten o'clock before she ever went to bed.
820
"We're leaving and we want you to take care of these."
"Take them to Orange Springs—and hide them."
"We'll come and get them as soon as we can."
"And if you squeal—"
Great gobs of adventure.
A complete outfit for a "woman of experience"———she might borrow it and vamp Channing.
My Own Woman:- You dreadfully wicked boarding school Miss! How lonely I am without you. If you could only arrange to see me more often
Hortense's love letters, an education in themselves, suggested a new idea—she would go home with a manufactured "past".
Miss Genevieve King Orange Springs, Fla.
Miss Genevieve King Orange Springs, Fla.
Miss Genevieve King, Orange Springs, Florida.
"You are to mail one every day."
Orange Springs wasn't expecting THIS
"William—I'm not the innocent little girl you used to know."
"It is better that you never see me again."
"Well, Buttons deah! Here I am."
"Howdy, Gushie, old top! How's everyone in the little old town?"
"Ta—ta."
"I have a confession to make——I'm leading a double life."
"—in New York—in notorious company—'til all hours in the morning."
"Why, it was only a few days ago—she was just a little flower."
"And her father out of town! Isn't this terrible!"
"Is it too late?"
"Too late!"
"Tell me his name."
His name! This was a new angle!
"No—I shall die with the secret locked in my heart."
"I shall probably become a dope fiend,—to forget."
Having succeeded beyond her wildest hopes, she decided to get rid on the vampire outfit.
BAGGAGE OFFICE
Chief of Police New York City New York
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENTGEORGE W. E. ATKINE, VICE-PRESIDENT
RECEIVED AT P H A905H RAL
NEW YORK NY 24445 40
POLICE COMMISSIONER  NEW YORK NY HAVE STUMBLED ACROSS MYSTERIOUS SUITCASES LOOKS MIGHTY SUSPICIOUS ADVISE IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION  MILT LOGANBERRY  STATION MASTER OGANGE SPRINGS FLA  4:40PM
Then home came father.
"One of these letters is arriving every day. I am keeping them from her."
My Own Woman:- You dreadfully wicked boarding school Miss! How lonely I am without you. If you could only arrange to see me more often
"You have no idea who the man is?"
"I will kill every suspect!"
"You knew you old Daddy would forgive you."
"But it's all a joke, Daddy—"
"Aren't things bad enough without lying?"
You misjudge Bill. He isn't running away. He is beating the Senator to a suspect.
"You big stiff, you'll have to answer to me for your crime!"
"Don't lie! Who was in on this with you?"
"This is the handwriting of Tom Morran, alias The Eel."
"Sorry, Senator, we'll have to hold her until she tells where her pals are hiding."
HER "PALS".
ORANGE SPRINGS
"Safe? We couldn't be safer in the middle of the Sahara Desert."
They walked right in, and turned around, and——
They walked right in, and turned around, and——
They walked right in, and turned around, and——
"You didn't fool me."
ORANGE SPRINGS---
Social welfare workers horrified over soft drink dissipation at Miami Beach club
"Have a couple more."
SELZNICK PICTURES
FINIS
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1936, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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