Louise Brooks
Biografia
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]
Filmografia
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Precz ze słowami
Film • 2026
jako Louise Brooks
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Film • 2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Film • 2011
jako Herself (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Film • 2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Film • 2007
jako Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Film • 1999
jako Self (archive footage)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Film • 1998
jako Herself (archive footage)
Mysteries and Scandals
Serial • 1998
jako Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Film • 1995
1001 Films
Film • 1989
jako (archival)
Louise Brooks
Film • 1986
jako Herself (Archival Footage)
Lulu in Berlin
Film • 1984
jako Self
Hollywood
Serial • 1980
jako Self
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
Film • 1976
jako Self - Interviewee
Overland Stage Raiders
Film • 1938
jako Beth Hoyt
When You're in Love
Film • 1937
jako Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
Empty Saddles
Film • 1936
jako Boots Boone
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
Film • 1931
jako Betty Grey
God's Gift to Women
Film • 1931
jako Florine
It Pays to Advertise
Film • 1931
jako Thelma Temple
Prix de beauté
Film • 1930
jako Lucienne
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
Film • 1929
jako Thymian Henning
The Canary Murder Case
Film • 1929
jako The Canary
Puszka Pandory
Film • 1929
jako Lulu
Ludzie bezdomni
Film • 1928
jako The Girl (Nancy)
A Girl in Every Port
Film • 1928
jako Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
The City Gone Wild
Film • 1927
jako Snuggles Joy
Now We're in the Air
Film • 1927
jako Griselle and Grisette
Rolled Stockings
Film • 1927
jako Carol Fleming
Evening Clothes
Film • 1927
jako Fox Trot
Just Another Blonde
Film • 1926
jako Diana O'Sullivan
The Show Off
Film • 1926
jako Clara
It's the Old Army Game
Film • 1926
jako Mildred Marshall
A Social Celebrity
Film • 1926
jako Kitty Laverne
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Film • 1926
jako Janie Walsh
The American Venus
Film • 1926
jako Miss Bayport
The Street of Forgotten Men
Film • 1925
jako A Moll