Flaming Youth (film)

Flaming Youth is a 1923 American silent drama film starring Colleen Moore and Milton Sills. The film was produced and distributed by Associated First National and directed by John Francis Dillon. Flaming Youth is based on the novel Flaming Youth by Samuel Hopkins Adams.

When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante Doctor Bobs watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been raised in a most unconventional manner, with Mona having a much younger lover and the father Ralph keeping his own lover on the side. As Patricia grows older, she attracts the attention of her mothers former lover, the much older than Patricia, who in the book is in her early to mid teens Carey Scott. Patricia tempts fate with her wild ways, nearly loses her virtue to a musician aboard an oceangoing boat, and is saved in time by Carey. Realizing that he is the man for her, she settles down into an experimental marriage.There had been several films prior to Flaming Youth which used the flapper as subject matter, most famously, The Flapper with Olive Thomas. However, Flaming Youth was the one that best captured the imagination of the American public,citation needed because it was based on a scandalous book and because it featured Colleen Moore, who was already a wellknown and respected dramatic actress who had been looking for a breakout role at the time she signed with First National. ........

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