Louise Brooks by Barry Paris7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Photos not seen by PW.Ĭopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. The biography is a gossip lover's feast, naming names and telling tales, yet also makes an addition to film history. ![]() ![]() But she was discovered and befriended by one John Benz, whose influence brought her again to public attention and secured the home where she lived out her days, cared for and reasonably contented. It was downhill all the way after that as Brooks failed at everything, finally growing old, poor and alcoholic in New York. Pabst then spotted the American "vamp" and chose her to play Lulu in the film that made her a screen icon, Pandora's Box. A promising star in early Hollywood films, she scorned later roles and decamped for Europe. Only 15 when she arrived in New York to dance with an established company, Brooks fouled up this opportunity, like many others, through sheer carelessness. Film historian Paris covers actress and author Brooks's life (1907-1985) from her days as a precocious child in Kansas through her sexually promiscuous, hedonistic adult years, here detailed exhaustively. ![]()
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