The Flapper (1920) on Netflix
Sixteen-year-old Ginger King craves excitement beyond her Florida town. Her father enrolls her at a strict girls' school in Lake Placid, where she claims to be twenty to charm an older man.
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Plot summary
In Orange Springs, Florida, sixteen-year-old Genevieve 'Ginger' King lives with her wealthy family, where drinking a soda unchaperoned with a young man counts as scandalous. Wanting a more exciting life for her, her father packs her off to Mrs. Paddles' School for Young Ladies in Lake Placid, New York, kept in line by a strict disciplinarian. The pupils still find ways to flirt, and Richard Channing, an older man who rides past the seminary daily, fuels romantic daydreams among them. Ginger arranges a sleigh ride with him and tells him she is about twenty. When she slips out to a country club party he is giving, a schoolmate tells the headmistress.
Cast
- Theodore Westman Jr.as Bill E. Forbes
- Katherine Johnstonas Hortense
- Louise Lindrothas Elmina Buttons
- Charles Craigas Reverand Cushil
- Maurice Steuartas Schoolboy
- Russell Hewittas Schoolboy (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Flapper (1920)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Flapper was the first film in the United States to portray the "flapper" lifestyle, a look and attitude that became a cultural craze across the country in the 1920s.
