In what year did an iconic symbol of the flapper appear in a silent crime drama?
Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), who worked professionally as Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer noted as an iconic symbol of the flapper, and for popularizing the bobbed haircut.
The Crime and the Criminal The Crime and the Criminal is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It features the same railway collision as the climax in "Do Men Love Women?" (1912) which had come out only a few weeks prior. However the plots of the movies are different.