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Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Mar 23, 2024 · Louise Brooks in “Diary of A Lost Girl” (1929). Photo courtesy of Pabst-Film. Brooks worked with Pasbt again in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), where Brooks plays a young woman, Thymian Henning, who is raped. Brooks used memories of her sexual abuse at the age of nine to feed her performance in this now-classic film.
Married in July 1926; divorced in 1928. Executive. With exotic good looks and a bobbed hairstyle she originated, actress Louise Brooks made a number of films during the silent era and the advent of sound, only to drop off the public radar after adamantly refusing to bow down to studio pressures. Brooks started her showbiz career as a dancer for...
Nov 6, 2023 · Louise Brooks — Life of a Lost Girl. “If I ever bore you, it will be with a knife”. “There is no Garbo. There is no Dietrich. There is only Louise Brooks”, said French film historian Henri Langlois at the time Louise Brooks was in Paris receiving a homage in honor of her film legacy, during the 1950s.
Actress Louise Brooks in a scene from the movie "The Canary Murder Case" in which she plays the role of Margaret Odell which was released in 1929. American actress Louise Brooks wearing a plaid coat, skirt and cloche hat, circa 1927.
Louise Brooks. Brooksie. Lulu. A tribute to the actress, icon, writer, timeless beauty, free spirit, dancer, ahead of her time, and all around fabulous Louis...
Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906 to Leonard Porter Brooks, a lawyer, and Myra Rude, a gifted pianist, who nurtured in Louise and her siblings, a love of art. Sexually abused at 9, she developed a deep distrust of men who were the gentle and kind types.
