Louise Brooks

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Louise Brooks was a dancer and actor born on November 14, 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas, USA. In 2006, the anniversary of Brooks' birth will be celebrated by the release of a three new DVDs and three new books, museum exhibits, screenings, and other events held across the United States and Europe.

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[edit] Filmography

  • 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)

[edit] Further reading

  • 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

[edit] Quotations

  • 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'.

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