Vintage 1982 LULU IN HOLLYWOOD Louise Brooks HARDCOVER Intro by William Shawn

Description: Vintage 1982 LULU IN HOLLYWOOD Louise Brooks HARDCOVER Intro by William Shawn Seven autobiographical essays-written with the clearest honesty and insight-from a Hollywood legend: Louise Brooks. Her look-the eyes, the sleek bangs, the candidly unreal innocence-established the look of the twenties. Her talent, beauty, and sharp intelligence made her a rising star in the Hollywood of that era. But her fierce independence and individuality, and her never-veiled contempt for the Hollywood "film factories" put her career in jeopardy by the time she was twenty-two. It was then that she went to Berlin to give her most electrifying performances-as Lulu in G. W. Pabst's 1929 film, Pandora's Box, followed by Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, also released in 1929. Finally, in 1940, she left Hollywood forever, unable to get a good part after being reduced to acting in a 1938 Western, Overland Stage Raiders, with John Wayne. Long a cult figure abroad, she emerged as a major personality in America with the famous 1979 New Yorker profile, "The Girl in the Black Helmet," by Kenneth Tynan. Now, in a style that the editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, calls in his Introduction 'direct, graceful, terse, exact, piercing, radiant," she recalls her life, her career, her art, and the people she knew and worked with in Hollywood. — Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Dancers (which was how she left Kansas and went to New York) and then with George White's Scandals before joining the Ziegfeld Follies, but became one of the most fascinating and alluring personalities ever to grace the silver screen. She was always compared to her Lulu role in Pandora's Box (1929), which was filmed in 1928. Her performances in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and Beggars of Life (1928), both filmed in 1928, proved to all concerned that Louise had real talent. She became known, mostly, for her bobbed hair style. Thousands of women were attracted to that style and adopted it as their own. As you will note by her photographs, she was no doubt the trend setter of the 1920s with her Buster Brown-Page Boy type hair cut, much like today's women imitate stars. Because of her dark haired look and being the beautiful woman that she was, plus being a modern female, she was not especially popular among Hollywood's clientele. She just did not go along with the norms of the film society. Louise really came into her own when she left Hollywood for Europe. There she appeared in a few German productions which were very well made and continued to prove she was an actress with an enduring talent. Until she ended her career in film in 1938, she had made only 25 movies. After that, she spent most of her time reading and painting. A legendary actress of the silent film era. She epitomized the flapper age with her bobbed hairstyle, while blatantly flaunting the accepted sexual and societal roles of women at the time. She is best known for her starring roles in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl," which were both filmed in Weimar Germany in 1929. She quit acting in 1938 at the age of 32. Several of her films are considered lost. She spent many years living in obscurity until her remaining films were rediscovered in the 1950s to great acclaim. Her status as one of the great actresses and beauties of motion pictures continues to this day.

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