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...
View ArticleLibba 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,...
View ArticleLouise 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleLouise 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...
View ArticleThe Great Nickelodeon Show
Louise Brooks fan Russell Merritt, who has introduced her films here in San Francisco, is behind this cinematic extravaganza
View ArticleLouise 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...
View ArticleVideo: 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).
View ArticleLouise 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....
View ArticleMovies 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...
View ArticleLouise 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 -...
View ArticleCompare and contrast: two pictures of Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks, circa 1925Louise Brooks, circa 1927
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleEarly 1930s Louise Brooks portrait
An early 1930's portrait of Louise Brooks, by Irving Lippman (of Columbia Studios).
View ArticleLouise 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...
View ArticleLouise 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...
View ArticleDiary 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...
View ArticleLouise 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...
View Article2012 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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