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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. She is best known for the films Pandora’s Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930). She starred in 17 silent films and, late in life, authored a memoir, Lulu in Hollywood.
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Louise Brooks Biography / Wiki
| Name | Louise Brooks |
| Also Know | Mary Louise Brooks |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cherryvale, Kansas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1906-11-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 1985-08-08 |
Louise Brooks Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Pandora’s Box | Lulu | 1929-01-30 | 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 publish… |
| Diary of a Lost Girl | Thymian Henning | 1929-09-27 | 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 fen… |
| Miss Europe | Lucienne | 1930-08-01 | Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds he… |
| Windy Riley Goes Hollywood | Betty Grey | 1931-05-02 | 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 studio… |
| Lulu | Lulu | 1996-10-01 | Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera’s themes in a to… |
| 1001 Films | (archival) | 1989-01-01 | An ode to film preservation, it presents a night-time visit to a seemingly depopulated repository (presumably the Royal Film Archive of Belgium), juxt… |
| Louise Brooks | Herself (Archival Footage) | 1986-04-17 | 55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks… |
| Lulu in Berlin | Herself | 1984-05-27 | Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks. It took place in… |
| The Canary Murder Case | The Canary | 1929-02-16 | 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 C… |
| Rolled Stockings | Carol Fleming | 1927-06-18 | 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 coll… |
| Beggars of Life | The Girl (Nancy) | 1928-09-22 | 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, qu… |
| A Girl in Every Port | Marie / Mam’selleGodiva – Girl in Marseille | 1928-02-26 | Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come betwe… |
| It’s the Old Army Game | Mildred Marshall | 1926-07-10 | 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 firem… |
| Empty Saddles | Boots Boone | 1936-12-20 | Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch…. |
| A Social Celebrity | Kitty Laverne | 1926-03-29 | Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves… |
| Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu | Herself (archive footage) | 1998-05-05 | 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 … |
| Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em | Janie Walsh | 1926-03-19 | 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 c… |
| Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture | 1976-10-07 | The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, fi… | |
| The City Gone Wild | Snuggles Joy | 1927-11-12 | Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend’s death…. |
| Just Another Blonde | Diana O’Sullivan | 1926-12-13 | 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 5… |
| The Show Off | Clara | 1926-08-16 | 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 th… |
| Overland Stage Raiders | Beth Hoyt | 1938-09-20 | 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 brin… |
| Now We’re in the Air | Griselle and Grisette | 1927-10-21 | 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 an… |
| Evening Clothes | Fox Trot | 1927-03-19 | Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D’Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D’Artois retaliates by moving to the city… |
| It Pays to Advertise | Thelma Temple | 1931-02-18 | 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 hi… |
| The American Venus | Miss Bayport | 1926-01-31 | 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 competit… |
| Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Herself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 | 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 Al… |
| The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
| The Casting Couch | (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 | An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood’s most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes… |
| God’s Gift to Women | Florine | 1931-04-13 | 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…. |
| Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | 2007-05-23 | 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 t… | |
| Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self (archive footage) | 1999-06-14 | 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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