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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Character:
Release Date:30/12/2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Character:Herself (archive footage)
Release Date:03/04/2011
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Character:
Release Date:15/06/2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/05/2007
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/06/1999
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Character:Herself (archive footage)
Release Date:05/05/1998
1001 Films
Character:(archival)
Release Date:01/01/1989
Louise Brooks
Character:Herself (Archival Footage)
Release Date:17/04/1986
Lulu in Berlin
Character:Herself
Release Date:27/05/1984
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:07/10/1976
The Love Goddesses
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:03/03/1965
Overland Stage Raiders
Character:Beth Hoyt
Release Date:20/09/1938
Empty Saddles
Character:Boots Boone
Release Date:20/12/1936
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
Character:Betty Grey
Release Date:02/05/1931
God's Gift to Women
Character:Florine
Release Date:13/04/1931
It Pays to Advertise
Character:Thelma Temple
Release Date:18/02/1931
Miss Europe
Character:Lucienne
Release Date:01/08/1930
Diary of a Lost Girl
Character:Thymian Henning
Release Date:27/09/1929
The Canary Murder Case
Character:The Canary
Release Date:16/02/1929
Pandora's Box
Character:Lulu
Release Date:30/01/1929
Beggars of Life
Character:The Girl (Nancy)
Release Date:22/09/1928
A Girl in Every Port
Character:Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
Release Date:26/02/1928
The City Gone Wild
Character:Snuggles Joy
Release Date:12/11/1927
Now We're in the Air
Character:Griselle and Grisette
Release Date:21/10/1927
Rolled Stockings
Character:Carol Fleming
Release Date:18/06/1927
Evening Clothes
Character:Fox Trot
Release Date:19/03/1927
Just Another Blonde
Character:Diana O'Sullivan
Release Date:13/12/1926
The Show Off
Character:Clara
Release Date:16/08/1926
It's the Old Army Game
Character:Mildred Marshall
Release Date:10/07/1926
A Social Celebrity
Character:Kitty Laverne
Release Date:29/03/1926
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Character:Janie Walsh
Release Date:19/03/1926
The American Venus
Character:Miss Bayport
Release Date:31/01/1926
The Street of Forgotten Men
Character:A Moll (uncredited)
Release Date:24/07/1925
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