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Louise Brooks‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1906-11-14

Popularity

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Louise Brooks

Cherryvale, Kansas, USA

Louise Brooks

Cherryvale, Kansas, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1906-11-14

Popularity

star3.4

Biography

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]

Movie Credits

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box‌
star7.5
calendar 1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl‌
star7.4
calendar 1929

The Street of Forgotten Men

The Street of Forgotten Men‌
star6.0
calendar 1925

The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case‌
star5.5
calendar 1929

Miss Europe

Miss Europe‌
star6.2
calendar 1930

Rolled Stockings

Rolled Stockings‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life‌
star7.1
calendar 1928

The Show Off

The Show Off‌
star7.2
calendar 1926

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port‌
star6.3
calendar 1928

It Pays to Advertise

It Pays to Advertise‌
star4.7
calendar 1931

Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

Love 'Em and Leave 'Em‌
star6.7
calendar 1926

Overland Stage Raiders

Overland Stage Raiders‌
star5.0
calendar 1938

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood‌
star5.0
calendar 1931

It's the Old Army Game

It's the Old Army Game‌
star5.0
calendar 1926

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl‌
star7.7
calendar 1999

God's Gift to Women

God's Gift to Women‌
star5.0
calendar 1931

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films‌
star9.0
calendar 2011

Empty Saddles

Empty Saddles‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

1001 Films

1001 Films‌
star5.5
calendar 1989

The American Venus

The American Venus‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

Now We're in the Air

Now We're in the Air‌
star6.2
calendar 1927

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks‌
star0.0
calendar 1986

A Social Celebrity

A Social Celebrity‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

The City Gone Wild

The City Gone Wild‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema‌
star4.9
calendar 2007

The Love Goddesses

The Love Goddesses‌
star6.3
calendar 1965

Just Another Blonde

Just Another Blonde‌
star6.0
calendar 1926

Evening Clothes

Evening Clothes‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu‌
star7.3
calendar 1998

Lulu in Berlin

Lulu in Berlin‌
star7.0
calendar 1984

Tv Credits

Mysteries and Scandals

Mysteries and Scandals‌
star5.0
calendar 1998

Hollywood

Hollywood‌
star8.3
calendar 1980

Arena

Arena‌
star6.6
calendar 1975