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Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Olive Thomas: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

2003•58m•7.0/10
Documentary

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7.0/10(2)

Explores the life and death of one of the first onscreen flappers. By the time she appeared in The Flapper, she had completed more than seventeen films, but beneath the glitter of success Olive had her share of tragedy. Her death under mysterious circumstances just before her 26th birthday shocked the world.

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Rosanna Arquette

Rosanna Arquette

Self - Narrator

Olive Thomas

Olive Thomas

Self (archive footage)

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