The mystique of Louise Brooks begins with her abandonment
of Hollywood in 1929 following a string of flapper roles for Paramount
comedies and the first signs of real artistic merit in films by
Howard Hawks and William Wellman. Going to Ger many, Brooks was
cast as Lulu in G.W. Pabst's film of Pandora's Box. Erotic, alive,
intimate, the film reveals Brooks as a sexually attuned young
woman whose most private thoughts and movements of the soul can
be seen on her face. This was acting as being, the revelation
of a human in the fact of isolation. Brooks immediately agreed
to do Pabst's next work, Diary of a Lost Girl, then rebuffed Paramount
to work in France. Her Hollywood career sputtered to a close,
but the image of her bobbed haircut and iconic loveliness still
haunts cinematic memory. Louise
Brooks films include
Pandora's Box
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Show Off
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