Louise Brooks

Acting

Louise Brooks

Born 1906-11-14 Cherryvale, Kansas, USA 35 films

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, an…

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Filmography

35 films
1001 Films poster

An ode to film preservation, it presents a night-time visit to a seemingly depopulated repository (…

1001 Films

★ 6.0 1989

Lulu in Berlin poster

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever…

Lulu in Berlin

★ 7.6 1984