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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 14, 1906
Died
August 8, 1985
Place of Birth
Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- Mary Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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, and was signed to a five-year contract with the studio. She appeared in supporting roles in various Paramount films before taking the heroine's role in Beggars of Life (1928). Dissatisfied with her mediocre roles in Hollywood films, Brooks went to Germany in 1929 and starred in three feature films that launched her to international stardom: Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Miss Europe (1930); the first two were directed by G. W. Pabst. By 1938, she had starred in seventeen silent films and eight sound films. After retiring from acting, she fell upon financial hardship and became a paid escort. For the next two decades, she struggled with alcoholism and suicidal tendencies. Following the rediscovery of her films by cinephiles in the 1950s, a reclusive Brooks began writing articles about her film career; her insightful essays drew considerable acclaim. She published her memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982. Three years later, she died of a heart attack at age 78. [preceding biography, edited, from Wikipedia]
Known For
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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
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Herself (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
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Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
4.3
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
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Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
7.3
Herself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1998
4.4
Self (archive footage)
Mysteries and Scandals
1998
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5.5
(archival)
1001 Films
1989
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Herself (Archival Footage)
Louise Brooks
1986
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Herself
Lulu in Berlin
1984
Credits
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
9.0
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.3
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (archive footage)
1999
7.7
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
as Herself (archive footage)
1998
7.3
Mysteries and Scandals
as Self (archive footage)
1998
4.4
🎬
1001 Films
as (archival)
1989
5.5
Louise Brooks
as Herself (Archival Footage)
1986
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Lulu in Berlin
as Herself
1984
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Hollywood
as Self
1980
8.3
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
as Self - Interviewee
1976
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Overland Stage Raiders
as Beth Hoyt
1938
5.0
Empty Saddles
as Boots Boone
1936
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Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
as Betty Grey
1931
5.0
God's Gift to Women
as Florine
1931
4.5
It Pays to Advertise
as Thelma Temple
1931
4.9
Miss Europe
as Lucienne
1930
6.2
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Thymian Henning
1929
7.3
The Canary Murder Case
as The Canary
1929
5.7
Pandora's Box
as Lulu
1929
7.5
Beggars of Life
as The Girl (Nancy)
1928
7.1
A Girl in Every Port
as Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
1928
6.1
The City Gone Wild
as Snuggles Joy
1927
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Now We're in the Air
as Griselle and Grisette
1927
6.2
Rolled Stockings
as Carol Fleming
1927
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Evening Clothes
as Fox Trot
1927
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Just Another Blonde
as Diana O'Sullivan
1926
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The Show Off
as Clara
1926
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It's the Old Army Game
as Mildred Marshall
1926
4.8
A Social Celebrity
as Kitty Laverne
1926
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
as Janie Walsh
1926
6.7
The American Venus
as Miss Bayport
1926
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The Street of Forgotten Men
as A Moll (uncredited)
1925
6.0