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Flaming Youth (film)

Flaming Youth (film)

Flaming Youth is a 1923 American silentdrama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Colleen Moore and Milton Sills, based on the novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Associated First National produced and distributed the film. In his retrospective essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age", writer F. Scott Fitzgerald cited Flaming Youth as the only film that captured the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age. The film is now considered partially lost. One 11 minute reel survives and is housed at the Library of Congress.