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John Helds Flapper

Stage Name

Birth Name

n/a Flapper

   As they say "Sex Sells" and the Flapper or Jazz Baby of the 1920s started the "Sexual Revolution" (or maybe it was a rebellion) that is still going on today. The Jazz Baby would rid herself of the burdensome Corsets, Roll her stockings, shorten her Skirts, "Bob" her hair (cut short,) Smoke, Drink, Cuss, practice heavy petting and engage in sexual encounters.

   The most celebrated Flapper was Clara Bow known as the "It Girl" with Louise Brooks and the animated Betty Boop placing a near second.

   The Flappers and their male counterparts would change the bindings of the past. The Collegiate, Black Bottom and Charleston were the dances they would love to do. The Hedge code would curtail the movies from exploiting the evil doings of the flapper, then came Mae West ... More to come...

above Photo: John Held's Flapper 1920s.  

Birth Place

Creation Date

Creator

Dance Type

? USA ? 1920s Society Jass / Jazz
                       
 

Dance Types

Dancers

Music Titles

Apache Dance Ann Pennington 1922 - Flapper Fan   (Bob Schafer)
Ballin' The Jack Coleen Moore 1922 - Flapper Walk, the
Baltimore Buzz       1925 - The Flapper Wife (Golden Gate Orch)
Black Bottom       1924 - The Perfect Flapper (Colleen Moore)
Break-away       1954 - Flapperette (Jessie Greer) 
Camel Walk            
Charleston            
Collegiate Dances            
Eagle Rock            
Foxtrot            
Frisco            
Gaby Glide            
Jazz            
Shimmy (sha-wabble)            
Toddle, the       ... See Full list of Flapper Titled Music: n/a
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Savoy Ballroom Park Palace (10/23/1922) The Married Flapper (10/23/1922)
                 
                 
                 

Films

Television

Musicians / Singers, etc.

1920-29 - 20th Century News Reel (20:44) n/a Frank Westphat
1923 - The Jazz Bug            
$ 1924 - Campus Knights            
1926 - The Jazz Girl            
$ 1927 - College, #2VHS, [DVD]            
$1928 - Our Dancing Daughters            
$1929 - Coquette            
1929 - Jazz Mamas            
$1939 - The Roaring 20's (era)      

Posters

$1942 - Roxie Hart       Boop - Piano Tapping
$ 1960 - The Jazz Age
(documentary about the 1920s)
      Gaby-Yoo
      Gigollettes of Paris
$ 1993 - At The Jazz Band Ball [DVD ]       Jazz Babies Ball
$ 2000 - Jazz A Film by Ken Burns
- VHS SET
... [DVD ]
      Josephine Baker
       
Birmingham Black Bottom:
(1st all Black soundies)
           
           
$ The Story Of Jazz            
NOTE:
  
February 20, 2010
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