Saturday 28 February 2009

Insolent Shadow: Louise Brooks

by Mrs. Parker

Louise Brooks in her most famous role as Lulu in Pandora's Box.

She was either the bravest or the most foolish actress the screen has ever seen. In 1928, on the verge of stardom, she walked out on Hollywood and into celluloid obscurity, where she would remain for thirty years before she was “rediscovered.” The quintessential flapper, seductive screen siren, muse to countless artists, she was unlike any star the world had seen before. The woman who once said, "I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it will be with a knife," was an original. She was Louise Brooks.

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