Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent ... Brooks had no formal training as an actress. As she described it, "When I acted, I hadn't the slightest idea of what I was doing.

With Doris Humphrey, Louise Brooks, Jeordie Graham, Pauline Lawrence, Anne Douglas, Lenore Scheffer, Lenore Hardy, Lenore Sadowska.. White Studio (New York, N.Y.) 2) She did a dance tour of Europe in ...

Plus she loved learning Louise Brooks' story. The legendary actress ultimately became the biggest box office silent star in the world by the age of 23. Brooks personified the revolution for ...

At least, that was the story told by the actress Louise Brooks (1906-85) in her 1982 biography “Lulu in Hollywood.” Pabst “was not aroused by sexual love … it was sexual hate that engrossed his whole ...

Louise Brooks is known as the silent-movie actress who popularized the bob haircut and the Charleston. She has been called one of the 20th century’s most beautiful women. And Brooks – a woman ...

Mary Louise Brooks, as she was born in 1906 ... “I found that the only well-paying career open to me, as an unsuccessful actress of 36, was that of a call girl . . . and began to flirt with ...

Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent ... Brooks had no formal training as an actress. As she described it, "When I acted, I hadn’t the slightest idea of what I was doing.