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LBS featured on LAMB

On October 19th, the Louise Brooks Society blog was featured on LAMB, the Large Association of Movie Blogs, the premier movie blog directory - "a one-stop shop for readers and bloggers alike." Check it...

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Libba Bray's The Diviners: a near Louise Brooks cover

Libba Bray's The Diviners, as published in Italy.Libba Bray's new young adult / teen novel, The Diviners, is set in 1920's New York City. It's story centers on Evie O'Neil, and features speakeasies,...

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Louise Brooks & Rina Ketty - "J'attendrai"

A great song: Rina Ketty sings "J'attendrai" to images of Louise Brooks. For more French music like this, be sure and tune in to RadioLulu, the online radio station of the Louise Brooks Society, at...

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Happy Halloween: Louise Brooks as Death

Happy Halloween: Louise Brooks as Death

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New score for Pandora's Box playing in the UK

A new score for Pandora's Box (1929), starring Louise Brooks, has been written by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and cellist and composer Hildur Gudnadóttir (from the Icelandic band Múm). They will stage...

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Louise Brooks film screens at Andy Warhol Museum

There are few pop culture icons like Louise Brooks . . . and Andy Warhol. Each is legendary. Each, in ways, symbolize their time.The silent film star and the pop artist come together on November 2 when...

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The Great Nickelodeon Show

Louise Brooks fan Russell Merritt, who has introduced her films here in San Francisco, is behind this cinematic extravaganza

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Louise Brooks and Pandora's Box on TCM tonight!

Tonight, the cable station Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is scheduled to air the 1929 Louise Brooks' film, Pandora's Box, in the United States. Directed by G.W. Pabst, it's considered one of the great...

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Video: The Raconteurs, Steady As She Goes - Louise Brooks

A Louise Brooks tribute video, featuring "Steady As She Goes" by The Raconteurs (Jack White's group).

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Louise Brooks on the cover of Doom Patrol

From Show Girl in the 1920s to Valentina in more recent decades, Louise Brooks likeness has long served as an inspiration to cartoonists and comic book artists. This tradition of inspiration continues....

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Movies return to the Potrero Theater

According to its Cinema Treasures page, "The New Potrero opened as the Alta Theatre in 1913. The installation of sound equipment in 1930 also brought a new name: the New Potrero Theatre.... They ran no...

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Louise Brooks Society visits the William S. Paley Collection

The Louise Brooks Society visits the William S. Paley Collection at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. (Brooks and Paley had an affair in the 1920s, and later in life, Paley - the founder of CBS -...

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Compare and contrast: two pictures of Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks, circa 1925Louise Brooks, circa 1927

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Happy birthday Louise Brooks

Dancer, writer, and silent film star Louise Brooks was born on this day in 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas. And, on that very day, the Cherryvale Daily News ran a small item on the front page of the...

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Early 1930s Louise Brooks portrait

An early 1930's portrait of Louise Brooks, by Irving Lippman (of Columbia Studios).

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Louise Brooks: As seen on Amazon

Seen on Amazon, two Louise Brooks related titles at ridiculous prices! Needless-to-say, each can be had for a lot less.The first is a softcover copy of Louise Brooks, by Barry Paris. This 1990 edition...

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Louise Brooks & Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner (1933 – 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines. He was also a big fan of...

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Diary of a Lost Girl - Croatia 1930

If you are a fan of Louise Brooks, of silent film, or of the movies from any era, the Heritage Auctions website is always well worth checking out. New on the site is this vintage movie poster from...

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Louise Brooks shout out on SNL

Louise Brooks got a shout out on this past weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live. Former CIA Director David Petraeus' personal life was fodder for the show's opening skit, a send-up of the C-SPAN...

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2012 James Card Memorial Lecture

Don't miss the 2012 James Card Memorial Lecture by Denis Doros of Milestone Films, at http://milestonefilms.com/blogs/news/6912078-my-time-with-james-card

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