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The Country Flapper
Also known as Her First Love and Oh, Jo! in the USA : [The Cynic Effect]
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Cast: Dorothy Gish [Jolanda, the flapper], Glenn Hunter [Nathaniel Huggins, the boy], Mildred Marsh [the other flapper], Harlan Knight [Ezra Huggins, the boy’s father], Tom Douglas [Lemuell Philpotts, the bashful boy], Raymond Hackett [one brother], Albert Hackett [another brother], Kathleen Collins [the sister]
Dorothy Gish Productions (D.W. Griffith, Incorporated) production; distributed on State Rights basis by Producers’ Security Corporation. / Scenario by Harry Carr, from the short story “The Cynic Effect” by Nalbro Bartley. Cinematography by Fred Chaston. / © 19 July 1922 by Dorothy Gish Productions [LP18060]. Released 29 July 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was made by D.W. Griffith, Incorporated, in 1920 with the working title The Cynic Effect, but was not released. Arrangements were made for Famous Players-Lasky Corporation to release the film on 15 May 1921 under the title Oh, Jo!, but the film was not released. Griffith’s company leased the film to Producers’ Security Corporation in March 1922. In 1922, the film was temporarily known as Her First Love. The film was reedited with new intertitles by Joseph Farnham and retitled The Country Flapper; this version was released on 29 July 1922, with Dorothy Gish Productions credited as the producing company.
Comedy: Rural.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0883.
Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive; and in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 16 October 2011.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0883; AFI-F2 n. F2.1031; Barry-Griffith p. 54; Sherwood-Best p. 160; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM : with additional information provided by Daniel Pena.
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