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Feb 18, 1986 · American film actress Louise Brooks has become one of the most celebrated icons of early cinema. Her performance as unrepentant pleasure-seeker Lulu in GW Pabst's Pandora's Box made her a legend ...
Jun 4, 2018 · She was one of the silent era’s most celebrated stars, the bob-haired sex symbol whose greatest triumph was in German director GW Pabst’s Pandora’s Box in 1929. And yet Louise Brooks went ...
Jun 2, 2018 · Watching the newly restored version of Pandora's Box, one can't help but suspect that Louise Brooks, who died in 1985, is some contemporary YouTube star who has been seamlessly photoshopped into ...
May 22, 2023 · Once dubbed the most beautiful woman ever, Louise Brooks was a trailblazer of the silent cinema and style icon of the Jazz Age. Her sharp modern look and pro...
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In her day, Louise Brooks was never considered a major star. Her career, relatively speaking, was brief. The actress appeared in only 24 films between 1925 and 1938 — a period spanning 13 years, four of which she was absent from the screen.
Nov 14, 2023 · Louise Brooks was born November 14, 1906, which means she would be 117 today. We honor the legend by reposting Dan Callahan’s scintillating profile, first published on Brooks’s centenary on November 6.
Jan 29, 2016 · 1925, LOUISE BROOKS. When she was 9 years old, a neighborhood predator sexually abused Louise. This event had a major influence on Brooks’ life and career, causing her to say in later years that she was incapable of real love, and that this man “must have had a great deal to do with forming my attitude toward sexual pleasure….For me, nice, soft, easy men were never enough – there had ...
