THE PERFECT FLAPPER - With Colleen Moore and Syd Chaplin

Incomplete print in 35mm

(Note: All title cards all bare the following logo “Holly 0468, H.C. Jacobs Meyer Co. 438-479”)

Opening title “The girl of today – herself a problem – has her own problem to face – what kind of girl must I be – the kind of girl the boys want me to be” Colleen Moore in her Juliet costume at her own party, which Phyllis Haver criticizes as being too tame and boring, just like Tommie Lou herself”

A grand-dame “what more can a young man want than a girl who is carefully brought up with decorum.”

Colleen is so upset as to what a flop her costume party has become, runs away and states, “I’m not popular with the boys”

Colleen hides in the palms, so Syd Chaplin picks up a tray of over a dozen cocktails in silver cups and they each drink six, and become rather tipsy. They then leave the party going to a roadhouse called “THE LAUREL INN” (which is the same exterior set that will be reused in IRENE as the “DEW DROP INN.”  Once there Syd, get on top of a table and projects Shakespeare, much to the amusement of the guests and Colleen getting a bit sick struggles up the staircase to the second floor, and eventually out onto the balcony. There is a long sequence where the drunken Syd wants her to jump and be caught in the small trails of his tunic, but Colleen climbs down the trellis getting caught along with Syd and a photographer snaps their picture. (Note while hanging off the balcony it is evident that Colleen is doing her own stunts and falls.) Once on the ground the sheriff arrests the pair.

The next morning finds Phyllis Haver in a sunken tub taking a mud bath, when the contrite Syd arrives; she throws him out after reading of his exploits in the paper. She and her mother decide to sue for divorce, but Syd’s friend Frank Mayo, wants to hear the husband’s account. Colleen suffering with a hangover, and still in her “Juliet dress” from the night before has an ice bag tied to her head.

Syd explains that he was just trying to make a nice girl feel better and that he really does love Phyllis. At that moment Colleen enters in s strange black velvet and lame dress and freaks out both men with her childish attempts at being a seductress. Later in an auto she tries to impress Mayo, by asking for a cigarette, and other female gambits including showing him her pocketbook created out of a fabric doll.

Then Mayo asks if Syd will be attending a hot party with Colleen and answers, NO!

The party takes place in a large frame house that is being moved from one location to another with the revelers inside during the move. Colleen becomes the life of the party and eventually goes up to the roof where she sits down on the chimney and holds reins, as if she were controlling a sleigh, but a sudden jerk to the house tumbles Colleen down the chimney.

THIS IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE FILM