The story? La la! You could write a better!

| Dec 30, 2020

Flaming Youth is not quite up to the mark for highbrows, but it's a darn good picture for the rest of us -- wholly enjoyable, thoroughly un-draggy, admirably acted by an extraordinary cast.

| Dec 30, 2020

Lots of pep! Lots of spice! That's Flaming Youth, the first really clever sketch of jazzitis, bob-ities, pet-itis and all the other affections and affectations of the flapper that has gotten on tho screen this season, or perhaps during any other season.

| Dec 30, 2020

Colleen Moore, one of the most piquant actresses on the screen, established herself in a niche well up among the most popular stars In the cinema world with her Incomparable interpretation- of the flapper role enacted in H-laming Youth.

| Dec 30, 2020

Tense drama, charming romance sprightly comedy on a background of "flapperlsm" and "jazz." This is the picture which is painted by Flaming Youth, a startling First National photodrama.

| Dec 30, 2020

The age-old argument as to whether or not a wife has the right to demand o her husband the name rigidity of standards as he demands of her... forms the sensational theme of Flaming Youth, a powerful story of modern unconventional life.

| Dec 30, 2020

The picture is something in the nature of a study of the heart of . modern girl, but there is no lack of vital dramatic situations which require fable handling by the cast.

| Dec 29, 2020

It tries hard to be naughty -- but only succeeds in being artificial -- tho it has been excellently staged with an eye upon its opulent appeal.

| Dec 29, 2020

Much in the book has been changed and much has been left to the imagination, but in spite of it the picture still flames.

| Dec 29, 2020

While the picture Is not without Its shocks, it has comedy in good measure, and some effective acting. Miss Moore, as the gay flapper, is particularly good.

| Dec 29, 2020

Colleen Moore is the hit of the picture. As the ultra-jazzy daughter of a sufficiently jazzy father and mother, she makes you believe it. Her performance in this picture should add stimulus to her pretty well established vogue.

| Dec 29, 2020

Colleen Moore's piquant portrayal of Patricia Fentriss, flapper extraordinary, is unusually pleasing in the more emotional moments of the story, although in excess of posing at other times mars her work.

| Sep 9, 2020

The story is full of moving incidents and daring disclosures.

| Sep 9, 2020

It is packed full of spicy situations, the ingredients including flaming love, jazz maniacs, moonlight bathers, cocktails, mad pleasure-seekers, and red kisses.

| Sep 9, 2020

The settings of the picture are well arranged, even bordering on lavish.

| Sep 9, 2020

Every bit of the film was absorbing.

| Sep 9, 2020

The beguiling and resourceful tactics of a flapper, from her plebe days to her graduation as a bachelor of hearts, are engrossingly portrayed in Flaming Youth.

| Sep 9, 2020

There are two outstanding features about this picture. One is the exceptionally fine performance given by Colleen Moore, and the other is the fact that it is distinctly an ultra jazz production.

| Sep 9, 2020

It's the only lesson in "Jazz" that has been made in the history of the picture industry that is really a lesson without a preachment. It is an object lesson, sugar-coated with the finest kind of entertainment and done so magnificently.

| Sep 9, 2020

It is a difficult thing in commenting on this picture to keep from waxing over-enthusiastic on the work of Colleen Moore, who... paints a portrait of that modern institution -- the flapper -- that is without parallel in screen history.

| Sep 9, 2020