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4 unusual facts about Louise Brooks


Gilded Lily

She had lived for an inordinate length of time, her makeup (on her mask) and hair were very much in the style of the 1920s particularly Louise Brooks.

Olivia Louvel

Asserting her own vocabulary, she then embarked on her cinematic opus "Lulu In Suspension" inspired by silent-movie star Louise Brooks and her book "Lulu in Hollywood".

Prix de Beauté

The film is notable for being the first sound film made by star Louise Brooks, although all of her dialogue and singing were dubbed.

The Canary Murder Case

A film, The Canary Murder Case, was made by Paramount Pictures in 1929, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle and starring William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as the Canary.


Jaro Fürth

Fürth would transition to the era of sound film with ease, and would become a notable character actor throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, appearing in such films as Georg Wilhelm Pabst's drama Diary of a Lost Girl opposite American actress Louise Brooks and Karel Lamač's 1931 film adaptaion of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, opposite Czech actress Anny Ondra.

Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter

Her circle of friends, socialites, acquaintances and lovers included Evelyn Eugenia (known as "Sister") and her sister Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Marion Carstairs, Noël Coward, Greta Garbo, Libby Holman, Jane Bowles and Z. Smith Reynolds.

Mike Dringenberg

He co-created the popular character Death, whom he based on Cinnamon, a girl he knew from the dance clubs in Salt Lake City, Utah (Gaiman had imagined her looking like Louise Brooks or Nico, but ultimately preferred Dringenberg's version).

Osgood Perkins

"The best actor I ever worked with was Osgood Perkins," Louise Brooks told Kevin Brownlow.


see also

Beauty Prize

Prix de Beauté (Beauty Prize), a 1930 film starring Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks Society

In its nearly 20 year history, the LBS has helped bring both the Barry Paris biography of the actress and Louise Brooks' own book, Lulu in Hollywood, back into print through the University of Minnesota Press.

Now We're in the Air

Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks worked together the following year in Beggars of Life, a well-received early sound film.