The Flapper

Alan Crosland, Selznick Pictures, 1920. Olive Thomas as Ginger, a Southern boarding-school girl playing grown-up for a smooth stranger and a pair of jewel thieves. Frances Marion wrote it. Silent, about eighty-eight minutes, released 10 May. Thomas in clothes that advertise the new word; Crosland keeping the camera on the school corridor where the act is learned. Her last starring picture released in her lifetime.