Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

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]

  • Title : Louise Brooks
  • Popularity : 2.802
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1906-11-14
  • Place of Birth : Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
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  • Also Known As : Mary Louise Brooks
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Louise Brooks Movies

  • 1929
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    Pandora's Box

    Pandora's Box

    7.5 1929 HD

    Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper...

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  • 1929
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    Diary of a Lost Girl

    Diary of a Lost Girl

    7.414 1929 HD

    Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must...

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  • 1925
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    The Street of Forgotten Men

    The Street of Forgotten Men

    6 1925 HD

    Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place...

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  • 1929
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    The Canary Murder Case

    The Canary Murder Case

    5.6 1929 HD

    A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

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  • 1930
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    Miss Europe

    Miss Europe

    6.2 1930 HD

    Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds...

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  • 1927
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    Rolled Stockings

    Rolled Stockings

    1 1927 HD

    Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two...

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  • 1928
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    Beggars of Life

    Beggars of Life

    7.1 1928 HD

    After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains,...

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  • 1926
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    The Show Off

    The Show Off

    7.2 1926 HD

    A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to...

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  • 1928
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    A Girl in Every Port

    A Girl in Every Port

    6.3 1928 HD

    Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come...

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  • 1931
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    It Pays to Advertise

    It Pays to Advertise

    4.7 1931 HD

    To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with...

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  • 1926
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    Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

    Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

    6.7 1926 HD

    Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her...

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  • 1938
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    Overland Stage Raiders

    Overland Stage Raiders

    5 1938 HD

    After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line...

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  • 1931
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    Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

    Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

    5 1931 HD

    A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie...

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  • 1926
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    It's the Old Army Game

    It's the Old Army Game

    5 1926 HD

    Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's...

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  • 1999
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    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    7.7 1999 HD

    Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

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  • 1931
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    God's Gift to Women

    God's Gift to Women

    5 1931 HD

    A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.

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  • 2011
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    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    9 2011 HD

    Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

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  • 1936
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    Empty Saddles

    Empty Saddles

    1 1936 HD

    Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.

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  • 1989
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    1001 Films

    1001 Films

    5.5 1989 HD

    An ode to film preservation, it presents a night-time visit to a seemingly depopulated repository (presumably the Royal Film Archive of Belgium),...

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  • 1927
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    Now We're in the Air

    Now We're in the Air

    6.2 1927 HD

    Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps...

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  • 1926
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    The American Venus

    The American Venus

    1 1926 HD

    A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

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  • 1986
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    Louise Brooks

    Louise Brooks

    1 1986 HD

    55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

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  • 1926
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    A Social Celebrity

    A Social Celebrity

    1 1926 HD

    Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who...

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  • 1976
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    Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

    Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

    1 1976 HD

    The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature,...

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  • 1927
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    The City Gone Wild

    The City Gone Wild

    1 1927 HD

    Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.

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  • 2007
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    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    4.9 2007 HD

    Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

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  • 1926
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    Just Another Blonde

    Just Another Blonde

    6 1926 HD

    Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split...

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  • 1927
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    Evening Clothes

    Evening Clothes

    1 1927 HD

    Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the...

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  • 1998
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    Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

    Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

    7.3 1998 HD

    Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in Hollywood"; "Lulu in Berlin"; "Lulu in Hell"; and...

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  • 1984
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    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

    7 1984 HD

    Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

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  • 1998
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    Mysteries and Scandals

    Mysteries and Scandals

    5 1998 HD

    Mysteries and Scandals is an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on the E! network from March 1998...

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  • 1980
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    8.3 1980 HD

    A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

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  • 1975
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    Arena

    Arena

    6.7 1975 HD

    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...

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