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Stories featuring the early 20th Century ingénue Olive Thomas abound, some adoring and others outraged, but the fact remains that she took Hollywood by storm with her unparalleled beauty, her fearless tongue, and her guileless charm. Tragically, her career met an early end when Thomas died under mysterious circumstances in Paris just before her 26th birthday, leaving her mark on cinematic history half-formed. Born into a poor Pennsylvania family in a small town, Olive abandoned an early marriage for the glamour of New York, and soon found her way into the Ziegfeld Follies, becoming a favorite among illustrators. But underneath the glitter of her life lay a dark underbelly, as she developed a reputation as a loose woman who was single-minded in her pursuit of a life of pleasure; in escaping that Pittsburgh mining town, she was determined to live the fantasy of the Hollywood starlet. Olive's enigmatic life is detailed in the fascinating documentary OLIVE THOMAS: EVERYBODY'S SWEETHEART, narrated by Rosanna Arquette and featuring interviews with director Allison Anders (GAS FOOD LODGING), Richard Ziegfeld, and Daniel Selznick. Also included is the delightful comedy, THE FLAPPER, starring Olive as the small-town Ginger King, who goes off to an East Coast boarding school where she lands in hot water. She boldly flirts with an older man, unwittingly getting involved with a couple of jewel thieves who entrust her with the loot. When she returns home to show off her new jewels, the criminals come after her, and she is left to her own devices to outsmart them.
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DVD Features:
Region (unknown)
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Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Music Highlights - 1. "The Glorious Lady"
2. "The More I See of Somebody Else, the More I Think About You"
Featurette - Anecdote Reenactments about Olive Thomas as told by Billy Bitzer and Lenore Coffee
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Additional Text - Illustrated Interview with Bernard Krug Thomas, Olive Thomas' first husband, from The Pittsburgh Press
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