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Louise Brooks #LouiseBrooks
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Brooks described the hometown of her childhood as a typical Midwestern community where the inhabitants "prayed in the parlor and practiced incest in the barn." When Louise was nine years old, a neighborhood man sexually abused her. Beyond the physical trauma at the time, the event continued to have damaging psychological effects on her personal life as an adult and on her career. That early abuse caused her later to acknowledge that she was incapable of real love, explaining that this man: "must have had a great deal to do with forming my attitude toward sexual pleasure ... For me, nice, soft, easy men were never enough — there had to be an element of domination." When Brooks at last told her mother of the incident, many years later, her mother suggested that it must have been Louise's fault for "leading him on". In 1919, Brooks and her family moved to Independence, Kansas, before relocating to Wichita in 1920. -
🎬 HEUTE ABEND!
🎬 Am Samstag, den 31. Januar 2026, wird um 20:00 Uhr "Die Büchse der Pandora" (D 1929) mit Livemusik im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf gezeigt. Matthias Haarmann begleitet an der historischen Welte-Kinoorgel.
🎬 Mehr unter: https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/termintipps/termin/duesseldorf-die-buechse-der-pandora
#stummfilmmagazin #stummfilm #kino #film #silentfilm #louisebrooks #düsseldorf #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #kinoorgel -
🎬 Am Samstag, den 31. Januar 2026, wird um 20:00 Uhr "Die Büchse der Pandora" (D 1929) mit Livemusik im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf gezeigt. Matthias Haarmann begleitet an der historischen Welte-Kinoorgel. Mehr unter: https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/termintipps/termin/duesseldorf-die-buechse-der-pandora
#stummfilmmagazin #stummfilm #kino #film #silentfilm #louisebrooks #düsseldorf #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #kinoorgel -
A few vector drawings of Louise Brooks I recently completed. I'm a sucker for a cute face in that haircut… Original photos ca. 1929 by Eugene Robert Richee.
#AffinityDesigner #Affinity #LouiseBrooks #SilverScreen #Hollywood #Portraits #Illustration #mastoArt
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@Athenenoctua J’ai retrouvé le texte de la lettre de Louise Brooks à Guido Crepax, d’abord ici, puis, par archive.org, publiée dans un livre.
January 7, 1976
Dear Guido,
Thanks for the beautiful book and the comic strips. (But you didn’t tell me what that hyper-active slipper in the book meant).
I send you Image with the photo from the Dixie Dugan comic strip because it illustrates a unique fact. So far as I know no American actress has been the inspiration for one strip, and certainly never for two strips. Also John Striebel drew the syndicated Dixie from 1926 till 1966. And you began Valentina in 1965, just as if you were picking me up where John left off when he died.
Could Valentina be the lost Louise Brooks? Dixie Dugan was not. She was clever and intelligent and always knew how to take care of herself in a world she understood perfectly.
Ortega Y Gasset wrote that “We are all lost”, it is only when we confess it that we find ourselves and live true. But I knew I was lost when I was a little girl and my mother could not understand why I wept alone. Making films in New York was alright because I learned so much and discovered Tolstoj and Anna Karenina. Then I was sent to Hollywood in 1927 to make films. Nobody could understand why I hated that terrible destructive place which seemed a marvelous paradise to all others. “What’s the matter with you, Louise? You’ve got everything! What do you want?”. To me it was like a terrible dream I have — I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I cannot find my room. People walk past me as of they can not see or hear me. So I first ran away from Hollywood and I have been running away ever since. And now at 69 I have given up hope of ever finding myself. My life has been nothing.
But looking back, there was one time in Paris in 1929, when I was filming Prix de beauté and lived at peace with myself. I think that was because I did not speak French. Being lost was perfectly natural among those people with whom I could exchange no thoughts and feelings.
What does Valentina have to say to all this?
Love
Louise
Remember when the prodigal son returned the father said, “He was lost, and is found”. It was the father who found the lost son. Somehow I have missed being found.
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this tragedy lay just beneath the surface of everything louise brooks ever did. what i love most about louise is her grace. she wrote to an author who’d slagged off clara bow & gave him a right tongue lashing: 'you brush off clara bow for some old nothing like brooks. clara made three pictures that will never be surpassed'... she died in 1985, with generosity of spirit intact.
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her return to hollywood in the early 30s saw her acting work sag, so she dabbled in dancing, radio & writing. mercifully, her films were revived in the 1950s by french film historians, who proclaimed her superior to marlene dietrich & (former dalliance) greta garbo. by her own admissions, her sexually liberal attitudes were informed by an incident of CSA when she was nine years old. she said it left her incapable of real love.
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louise brooks is someone whose surface needs to be scratched in order to reveal her value.
she is much more than the sum of her perfectly straight fringe & enviably iconic bob. louise carved a ragged road from the ziegfeld follies to highly vaunted (if controversial) roles in celebrated european films that were sexually charged & taut with social commentary.
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#art #history: what. a. face.
louise brooks, born #otd in 1906, held a universe of expression in her eyes & she lived life on her own terms, social mores be damned.
i've got words for her & i'll post them below for your pleasure.
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Film Allemand réalisé par Georg Wilhelm Pabst en 1929
Avec Louise Brooks , Francis Lederer , Carl Goetz et Alice Roberts*Louise Brooks, celle qui incarnera à jamais lé mythe de «l'éternel féminin»
#LouiseBrooks #Loulou #PandorasBox #GeorgWilhelmPabst #FrancisLederer
#cinegenres @Cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale #cinema #culte #classic𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
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PR.com: Pioneering Louise Brooks Website Marks 30th Anniversary (PRESS RELEASE). “As the Louise Brooks Society begins its fourth decade online, it remains committed to its mission of preserving the memory of one of the most iconic figures in film history. With a renewed focus on education and outreach, the website aims to introduce a new generation of film enthusiasts to Louise Brooks and the […]
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🎬 Am Mittwoch, den 14. Mai 2025, ist um 19.00 Uhr G. W. Pabsts “Tagebuch einer Verlorenen” (D 1929) mit Livemusik von Natalie Böttcher (Akkordeon) im Murnau-Filmtheater in Wiesbaden zu erleben. Mehr Infos unter https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/termintipps/termin/wiesbaden-tagebuch-einer-verlorenen-mit-livemusik
#stummfilmmagazin #stummfilm #silentfilm #silentmovie #kino #film #kinoprogramm #filmerbe #wiesbaden #murnaufilmtheater #louisebrooks #tagebucheinerverlorenen #GWPabst -
This is my bike. There are many like it.* But this one is mine.
Her name is Louise, named after the film actress Louise Brooks.
*Surly Long Haul Trucker
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Louise Brooks dans son appartement de Rochester, 1974. (via @foreverlouiseb1 sur BS) } #cinéma #LouiseBrooks
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@gutenberg_org German original text: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/boehme/verloren/verloren.html
"Diary of a Lost Girl" with #LouiseBrooks is the film version of this book. -
Found this 20s-style dress on one of my charity shopping adventures.
Photographed by Nezzalonius
#20s #20sstyle #flapper #flapperfashion #flapperstyle #jazzage #fashion #photography #photographed #flapperdress #20sfashion #louisebrooks #louisebrooksbob #20sbob
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Louise Brooks in 1929, showing us what erotica books would feature today.
