The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas
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A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she’s the ghost of OLIVE THOMAS, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five. After winning a contest for “The Most Beautiful Girl in New York,” shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artists in New York, and then went on to become the toast of Broadway. When Hollywood beckoned, Ollie signed first with Triangle Pictures, and then with MYRON SELZNICK’s new production company, becoming most well known for her work as a “baby vamp,” the precursor to the flappers of the 1920s. After a stormy courtship, she married playboy JACK PICKFORD, MARY PICKFORD’s wastrel brother. Together they developed a reputation for drinking, club-going, wrecking cars, and fighting, along with giving each other expensive make-up gifts. Ollie's mysterious death in Paris’ Ritz Hotel in 1920 was one of Hollywood’s first scandals, ensuring...
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The Forgotten Flapper is an historical novel, based on the true story of one of Hollywoods earliest stars, Olive Thomas. With only one full-length biography published to date, author Laini Giles conducted her own extensive research, and has retold Olives story in her own voice, bringing the ingnue with the mischievous grin vividly to... A historical novel should do more than just tell a story. It should use the story to inform about the age in which it is set, the people, the society, and the ideas. The Forgotten Flapper, the story of Olive Thomas, achieves this goal superbly. From the broad panorama of 1920s America to small snippets such as the origin of the term... This historical novel is about a somewhat obscure actress named Olive Thomas who grew up in the early 1900s and came from a poor background. She started out as a shop girl and went on to become a member of the Zeigfeld Follies, a theatrical review in New York in the early 1900s. Olive later became a silent movie actress. This book is...
