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Louise Brooks
(1906-11-14)November 14, 1906
Cherryvale, Kansas, US
August 8, 1985(1985-08-08) (aged 78)
Rochester, New York, US
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Rochester, New York), US
(m. 1926-1928, divorced)
Deering Davis
Parent(s)
Leonard Brooks
Myra (née Rude)
Louise Brooks (Cherryvale, Kansas, 14 November 1906 – Rochester, New York, 8 August 1985) was an American dancer and actress. She became a leading film star, and a style icon famous for her beauty and her bobbed hair style.
In 2006, the centenary of Brooks' birth was celebrated by the release of three DVDs and three books, museum exhibits, screenings, and other events.
Brooks' signature film role was as Lulu in G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) in 1929. Brooks' portrayal was of a young woman whose raw sexuality and uninhibited nature brings ruin to herself and those who love her. It made the actress a star.
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
The American Venus (1926)
A Social Celebrity (1926)
It's the Old Army Game (1926)
The Show Off (1926)
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
Just Another Blonde (1926)
Evening Clothes (1927)
Rolled Stockings (1927)
Now We're in the Air (1927)
The City Gone Wild (1927)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Beggars of Life (1928)
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Prix de Beaute (1930)
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931) (short subject)
It Pays to Advertise (1931)
God's Gift to Women (1931)
Empty Saddles (1936)
When You're in Love (1937)
King of Gamblers (1937) (scenes deleted)
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Film Firsts: Louise Brooks (1960) (television)
Lulu in Berlin (1984) (documentary)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998) (documentary)
Mysteries and Scandals: Louise Brooks (1999) (television)
Louise Brooks, Fundamentals of Good Ballroom Dancing, United States: self-published, 1940
Pandora's Box (Lulu), United States: Simon & Schuster, 1971
Rolland Jaccard (editor), Louise Brooks: Portrait d'une Anti-Star, France: Editions Phebus, 1977
Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood, United States: Knopf, 1982
Vincenzo Mollica, Louise Brooks: Una Fiaba Nocturne, Italy: Editori del Grifo, 1984
Homenagem a Louise Brooks, Portugal: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 1986
Rolland Jaccard (editor), Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star, United States: New York Zoetrope, 1986
Barry Paris, Louise Brooks, United States: Knopf, 1989
Omaggio a Louise Brooks e Maya Deren, Italy: Cineteca D. W. Griffith, 1996
Louise Brooks: L'europeenne, France: Transeuropa, 1999
Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood: Expanded Edition, United States: University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Peter Cowie, Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, United States: Rizzoli, 2006
There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks! – Henri Langlois, 1955.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. – Louise Brooks, from her autobiography, 'Lulu in Hollywood'.
Images for kids
Publicity photo, c. 1930
Brooks as a sophomore in high school, 1922. She had worn bobbed hair since childhood.
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