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Flaming Youth

  • 1923
  • Passed
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
111
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Colleen Moore in Flaming Youth (1923)
Drama

An ingenue becomes a bob-haired flapper and enters into a ménage-à-trois with her mother's lover amid the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age.An ingenue becomes a bob-haired flapper and enters into a ménage-à-trois with her mother's lover amid the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age.An ingenue becomes a bob-haired flapper and enters into a ménage-à-trois with her mother's lover amid the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age.

  • Director
    • John Francis Dillon
  • Writers
    • Samuel Hopkins Adams
    • Harry O. Hoyt
  • Stars
    • Colleen Moore
    • Milton Sills
    • Elliott Dexter
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    111
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Francis Dillon
    • Writers
      • Samuel Hopkins Adams
      • Harry O. Hoyt
    • Stars
      • Colleen Moore
      • Milton Sills
      • Elliott Dexter
    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Colleen Moore
    Colleen Moore
    • Patricia Fentriss
    Milton Sills
    Milton Sills
    • Cary Scott
    Elliott Dexter
    Elliott Dexter
    • Dr. Bobs
    Sylvia Breamer
    Sylvia Breamer
    • Dee Fentriss
    Myrtle Stedman
    Myrtle Stedman
    • Mona Fentriss
    Betty Francisco
    Betty Francisco
    • Connie Fentriss
    Phillips Smalley
    Phillips Smalley
    • Ralph Fentriss
    Walter McGrail
    Walter McGrail
    • Jamieson James
    Ben Lyon
    Ben Lyon
    • Monty Standish
    George Barraud
    George Barraud
    • Fred Browning
    John Patrick
    John Patrick
    • Warren Graves
    Gino Corrado
    Gino Corrado
    • Leo Stenak
    • (as Geno Corrado)
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Annie
    Michael Dark
    Michael Dark
    • Sidney Rathbone
    Rosalind Byrne
    Rosalind Byrne
    • Fabian Flapper
    • (uncredited)
    Marie Curtis
      Gladys DePoy
        Dorothy Dial
          • Director
            • John Francis Dillon
          • Writers
            • Samuel Hopkins Adams
            • Harry O. Hoyt
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          5wes-connors

          Colleen Moore's Jazz Age

          Beginning her career in 1917 opposite popular young D.W. Griffith actor Robert Harron, brunette beauty Colleen Moore was an immediate movie star. But her relatively modest fame became super-stardom in 1923, with the release of "Flaming Youth" accompanying her appearance as a "Top Ten" favorite; she peaked at #1 in 1926's "Quigley Poll" of box office stars, and remained popular until talking pictures changed audience tastes in the early 1930s. A sanitized version of Warner Fabian's then sexy and scandalous contemporary novel, "Flaming Youth" has been considered Ms. Moore's first defining role...

          Unfortunately, only a portion of "Flaming Youth" survives. Fortunately, it contains some pivotal moments. The reel has been released on "Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films" (2011) and is sometimes shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). In it, débutante Moore (as Patricia "Pat" Fentriss) meets one of her deceased mother's loves, Milton Sills (as Cary Scott). She begins a romance with the older man and they attend a swimming pool party. The pool-side fun contains much of the film's notoriously naughty footage; photographed in silhouette, the reel ends with party guests dancing around in their wet underwear.

          ***** Flaming Youth (11/12/23) John Francis Dillon ~ Colleen Moore, Milton Sills, Myrtle Stedman, Gino Corrado
          10Larry41OnEbay-2

          Wonderful Colleen Moore fragment.

          I'm so glad Turner Classic Movies is playing this fragment and I hope more is found soon.

          Here's some more about what is still missing... This picture practically defined the Roaring Twenties and shot Colleen Moore to superstardom. Because she is neglected by her husband (Phillips Smalley), Mona Fentriss (Myrtle Steadman) begins living a frivolous, jazzy lifestyle. Two of her daughters, Connie (Betty Francisco) and Dee (Sylvia Breamer), follow in her footsteps and make unhappy marriages, but Mona tries to instill some sort of old-fashioned values in her youngest daughter, Pat (Moore). Heart trouble leads Mona to an early death, but before she dies, she reveals to her friend, Doctor Bobs (Elliott Dexter), that her one true love was Cary Scott (Milton Sills). Pat grows up to be a jazz baby, but Scott returns and becomes her one stabilizing influence. Although they fall in love, Scott must get a divorce from his estranged wife before they can wed. Pat is hesitant to marry at all because of all the unhappy matches around her. She becomes involved with a violinist who traps her on a yacht and she is forced to jump into the sea to save herself. She becomes gravely ill and Doctor Bobs and Scott do what they can to bring her back from the brink. It's the spirit of her mother, however, which really saves Pat so that she can recover and marry Scott.

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            The Library of Congress has the only extant reel of Flaming Youth: a 10-minute fragment which shows people diving into a swimming pool.
          • Quotes

            Patricia Fentriss: Don't be alarmed if I go all to smash in your hands--I'm not responsible when I'm listening to wonderful music.

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            Featured in Hollywood (1980)

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          • Release date
            • November 12, 1923 (United States)
          • Country of origin
            • United States
          • Languages
            • None
            • English
          • Also known as
            • Brådmogen ungdom
          • Production company
            • John McCormick Productions
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          • Runtime
            1 hour 30 minutes
          • Color
            • Black and White
          • Sound mix
            • Silent
          • Aspect ratio
            • 1.33 : 1

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