Louise Brooks
Acting
Born November 14, 1906 · Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Biography
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'…
Known For · 37 titles
Hollywood
Pandora's Box
Rolled Stockings
Diary of a Lost Girl
Mysteries and Scandals
Empty Saddles
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
The Casting Couch
Beggars of Life
When You're in Love
Overland Stage Raiders
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Away with Words
A Social Celebrity
A Girl in Every Port
The Show Off
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1001 Films
The Canary Murder Case
Miss Europe
The American Venus
Just Another Blonde
God's Gift to Women
The Street of Forgotten Men
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
It's the Old Army Game
The City Gone Wild
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
Now We're in the Air
Evening Clothes
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
It Pays to Advertise
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
Louise Brooks
Lulu in Berlin