A former Ziegfeld girl, Olive Thomas acted in almost two dozen films before dying unexpectedly at age 25. In this 1920 comedy, one of her last films, Thomas stars as a small-town girl who gets mixed ...

“I know you’re pretty and the boys like you, but I’m here to protect you.” So says Norma Carlisle (Downton Abbey‘s Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron in Kansas who never broke a rule in her ...

In the age before the Roaring Twenties, women were still wearing floor-length dresses. Waists were cinched. Arms and legs were covered. Corsets were standard on a daily basis. Hair was long. The ...

Although a top star in the 1920s, the name Colleen Moore has all but disappeared from memory as most of her work is now considered lost. Moore, with her razor-sharp black bob, lithe dancer body and ...

We don't need any extra enticements to go see an enchantment-packed, eerie/elegant silent film like "The Mystic." But. But when we hear that there will be a flapper fashion show, put on by two SoCal ...

As any Gossip Girl fan will tell you, the glamorous outfits paraded in the US series are as fascinating as the scandalous lives of the elite Manhattan teenagers it follows. Shots from the set of the ...

THE revival of a 1920s dance has got everybody in a flapper after an eye-catching new video to promote Brighton and Hove became an internet sensation. More than 80 dancers aged from five to 80 filmed ...

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