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Vintage Scrap Book of Silent Film Star Louise Brooks.

8.5" x 11.5" black hard board covered scrap book. Illustration "Safety First!" on front cover. Illustration by C. Twelvetrees.

23 pages filled with magazine and newspaper articles of Louise Brooks, her movies, her hair style, her awards and honors. Reviews of her book and her movies.

Few of the clippings are dated 1983 and ticket of George Eastman House Film Festival 1982.

Info: Louise Brooks ( 14 November 1906 - 8 August 1985 ) was an American dancer , showgirl , and silent film actress . She became, at the end of her life, a writer and critic of the silent film era.

Brooks began her entertainment career as a dancer, joining the Denishawn modern dance company (whose members included Martha Graham , Ruth St. Denis , and Ted Shawn ) in 1922.

Once in Germany she starred in the remarkable 1929 film Pandora's Box , directed by the respected director G.W. Pabst in his New Objectivity period. The film is based on two plays by Frank Wedekind ( Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora ) and Brooks plays the central figure Lulu, who meets her fate at the hands of Jack the Ripper after a series of salacious escapades. This film is notorious for its frank treatment of modern sexual mores, including the first screen portrayal of a lesbian. Louise then starred in the controversial social dramas Diary Of A Lost Girl (1929), also directed by Pabst , and Prix de Beauté (1930), the latter being filmed in France , and having a famous, but mesmerizing, shock ending. All these films were heavily censored , as they were very "adult" and considered shocking in their time for their portrayals of sexuality, in addition to being highly critical of society. Although overlooked at the time because "talkies" were taking over the movies, these three films were later recognized as masterpieces of the Silent Age, with her role of Lulu now regarded as one of the greatest performances in film history.

Her distinctive bob haircut , which became eponymous and still recognised to this day, had helped start a trend, as many women in the Western world began to wear their hair as both she and fellow film star Colleen Moore did. [12] Soon after the film Beggars Of Life was made, Brooks, who loathed the Hollywood "scene", refused to stay on at Paramount after being denied a promised raise, and left for Europe to make films for G. W. Pabst , the great German Expressionist director.

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