“does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”
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Louise Brooks
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.
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entertainment · American actress (1906–1985) · actor · dancer · autobiographer · film actor · model · writer · also Louise Brooks, Mary Louise Brooks, Brooks
Born 14 November 1906 · Died 8 August 1985 · Q152779
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2026· 5 entries
Porterville Recorder: Mel Brooks programs his 20 favorite films at American Cinematheque. Read the list
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Los Angeles Times: Exclusive: Mel Brooks programs his 20 favorite films at American Cinematheque. Read the list
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The Harvard Press: Movieland: It girl Louise Brooks and the forgotten classic that made her career
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Flicker Alley released Focus on Louise Brooks
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2018· 1 entry
The PBS film The Chaperone was released, which depicts Brooks's initial arrival in New York and alludes to her career decline as an actress
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2011· 1 entry
American metal group Metallica and singer-songwriter Lou Reed released the double album Lulu with a Brooks-like mannequin on the cover
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1991· 1 entry
British new wave group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released "Pandora's Box" as a tribute to Brooks's film
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1985· 3 entries
Died 1985-08-08.
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After suffering from degenerative osteoarthritis of the hip and emphysema for many years, Brooks died of a heart attack in her apartment in Rochester, New York
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Significant allusions to Brooks have appeared in novels, comics, music, and film
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1982· 2 entries
And still in print, was heralded by film critic Roger Ebert as "one of the few film books that can be called indispensable
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Writer Tom Graves was allowed into Brooks's small apartment for an interview, and later wrote about the often awkward and tense conversation in his article "My Afternoon with Louise Brooks"
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1979· 1 entry
Was profiled by the film writer Kenneth Tynan in his essay "The Girl in the Black Helmet", the title an allusion to her bobbed hair, worn since childhood
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1957· 1 entry
And rehabilitated her reputation in her home country
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1956· 1 entry
To move to be near the George Eastman House film collection where she could study cinema and write about her past career
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1955· 1 entry
French film historians such as Henri Langlois rediscovered Brooks's films, proclaiming her an unparalleled actress who surpassed even Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo as a film icon, much to her purported amusement
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1949· 1 entry
"The Silver Salver" was the title she gave the tenth and final chapter
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1940· 1 entry
And becomes a private investigator who solves murders
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1937· 1 entry
Brooks obtained a bit part in the film King of Gamblers after a private interview on a Paramount set with director Robert Florey, who "specialised in giving jobs to destitute and sufficiently grateful actresses
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1936· 1 entry
And did a bit part in Empty Saddles, a Western that led Columbia to offer her a screen test, contingent on appearing in the 1937 musical When You're in Love, uncredited, as a specialty ballerina in the chorus
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1933· 1 entry
Married Chicago millionaire Deering Davis, a son of Nathan Smith Davis Jr
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1932· 1 entry
And began dancing in nightclubs to earn a living
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1931· 1 entry
Was cast in two mainstream films, God's Gift to Women (1931) and It Pays to Advertise (1931), but her performances were largely ignored by critics, and few other job offers were forthcoming due to her informal "black
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1929· 1 entry
And starred in three feature films that launched her to international stardom: Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Miss Europe (Prix de Beauté) (1930); the first two were directed by G
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1925· 2 entries
Both Paramount and MGM offered her contracts
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Brooks sued the New York glamour photographer John de Mirjian to prevent publication of his risqué studio portraits of her; the lawsuit made him notorious
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1919· 1 entry
Brooks and her family moved to Independence, Kansas, before relocating to Wichita in 1920
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-11-14.
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