Louise Brooks
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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract with the studio. She appeared in supporting roles in various Paramount films before taking the heroine's role in Beggars of Life (1928). Dissatisfied with her mediocre roles in Hollywood films, Brooks went to Germany in 1929 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 (1930); the first two were directed by G. W. Pabst. By 1938, she had starred in seventeen silent films and eight sound films. After retiring from acting, she fell upon financial hardship and became a paid escort. For the next two decades, she struggled with alcoholism and suicidal tendencies. Following the rediscovery of her films by cinephiles in the 1950s, a reclusive Brooks began writing articles about her film career; her insightful essays drew considerable acclaim. She published her memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982. Three years later, she died of a heart attack at age 78. [preceding biography, edited, from Wikipedia]
Known for
Credits
Pandora's Box (1929)
as Lulu
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
as Herself (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Empty Saddles (1936)
as Boots Boone
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture (1976)
as Self - Interviewee
Beggars of Life (1928)
as The Girl (Nancy)
When You're in Love (1937)
as Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
as Thymian Henning
Rolled Stockings (1927)
as Carol Fleming
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
as Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
The Casting Couch (1995)
Actor
It Pays to Advertise (1931)
as Thelma Temple
A Social Celebrity (1926)
as Kitty Laverne
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
as The Canary
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture (2010)
Actor
God's Gift to Women (1931)
as Florine
Louise Brooks (1986)
as Herself (Archival Footage)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
as Herself (archive footage)
The Show Off (1926)
as Clara
Miss Europe (1930)
as Lucienne
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)
as Betty Grey
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
as Beth Hoyt
The American Venus (1926)
as Miss Bayport
Away with Words (2026)
as Louise Brooks
It's the Old Army Game (1926)
as Mildred Marshall
Evening Clothes (1927)
as Fox Trot
Just Another Blonde (1926)
as Diana O'Sullivan
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
as A Moll
1001 Films (1989)
as (archival)
The City Gone Wild (1927)
as Snuggles Joy
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
as Janie Walsh
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012)
Actor
Now We're in the Air (1927)
as Griselle and Grisette
Lulu in Berlin (1984)
as Self