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person_profile-Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Louise Brooks

Date of Birth:

Nov 14, 1906

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 08, 1985

Biography of

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]

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Louise Brooks

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Filmography of

Louise Brooks

Found 31 Movies in total

Video Diary of a Lost Girl

Self (Archival footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2012

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2007

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1999

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1998

The Casting Couch

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

Louise Brooks

Herself (Archival Footage) ( Actor )

... 1986

Lulu in Berlin

Herself ( Actor )

... 1984

... 1976

The Love Goddesses

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

Overland Stage Raiders

Beth Hoyt ( Actor )

... 1938

Empty Saddles

Boots Boone ( Actor )

... 1936

God's Gift to Women

Florine ( Actor )

... 1931

It Pays to Advertise

Thelma Temple ( Actor )

... 1931

Miss Europe

Lucienne ( Actor )

... 1930

Diary of a Lost Girl

Thymian Henning ( Actor )

... 1929

The Canary Murder Case

The Canary ( Actor )

... 1929

Pandora's Box

Lulu ( Actor )

... 1929

Beggars of Life

The Girl (Nancy) ( Actor )

... 1928

A Girl in Every Port

Marie / Mam'selle Godiva ( Actor )

... 1928

The City Gone Wild

Snuggles Joy ( Actor )

... 1927

Now We're in the Air

Griselle and Grisette ( Actor )

... 1927

Rolled Stockings

Carol Fleming ( Actor )

... 1927

Evening Clothes

Fox Trot ( Actor )

... 1927

Just Another Blonde

Diana O'Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1926

The Show Off

Clara ( Actor )

... 1926

It's the Old Army Game

Mildred Marshall ( Actor )

... 1926

A Social Celebrity

Kitty Laverne ( Actor )

... 1926

Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

Janie Walsh ( Actor )

... 1926

The American Venus

Miss Bayport ( Actor )

... 1926

The Street of Forgotten Men

A Moll (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925