Pandora's Box
1930
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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Upon returning to America, Louise Brooks dug her own professional grave: She outrightly refused to do the sound retakes for her 1929 picture, The Canary Murder Case. After that, studios blacklisted the prideful actress, and Paramount event purported that her voice was ill-suited for sound pictures.
Louise Brooks. Actress: Pandora's Box. Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906.
4 days ago · Louise Brooks, American motion-picture actress who was noted for her seemingly effortless incarnation of corrupt sensuality in silent-pictures during the 1920s. Her notable movies included A Girl in Every Port, Beggars of Life, Pandora’s Box, and Diary of a Lost Girl.
Louise Brooks. Actress: Pandora's Box. Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906.
Jun 3, 1979 · Kenneth Tynan surveys the extraordinary but short-lived career of the film star Louise Brooks, and interviews Brooks herself, a vehement, unself-pitying seventy-one-year-old with perfect recall...
Aug 6, 2019 · Here are 10 little known facts about Louise Brooks – the strong-willed actress that refused to be silenced: 1) She was the youngest member of the Denishawn Dancers, joining the troupe and traveling to New York City to pursue a career in dance at just 15 years old.
Jul 16, 2012 · Seven years before she dazzled international audiences as the amoral Lulu in G.W. Pabst’s 1929 German masterpiece “Pandora’s Box,” Louise Brooks was a willful, intelligent and beautiful...
Jun 2, 2018 · The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars. Louise Brooks in “Pandora’s Box”: director GW Pabst wanted her for the role. Tara Brady. Sat Jun 2 2018 - 05:00.
Nov 14, 2023 · In the long last years of her life, Louise Brooks, isolated in Rochester, New York and utterly tired of living, would end telephone conversations with the order, “Bring a gun.” Her friends were shocked by this macabre request, which must have delighted her.
