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Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, to screen in Bath, England
Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at Green Park Station in Bath, England on October 20 as part of the FilmBath Festival 2024. This screening will feature a live musical...
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A new book and a new Louise Brooks cover
A new book featuring Louise Brooks on the cover has just recently been published in The Netherlands. This 2024 book by Dorian D'Oliveira is titled In de schaduwen van de toekomst, or In the Shadows of...
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Now We're in the Air, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1927
Now We're in the Air, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1927. The film, once thought lost, is a comedyabout two fliers (a pair of “aero-nuts” called “looney Lindberghs”) who wander on...
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Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1929
Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in Germany in 1929. In this once controversial production, Brooks plays the title role — the “lost girl”. The film is the...
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Beggars of Life to be screened in Jim Tully's hometown
Beggars of Life, the sensational William Wellman-directed silent film starring Louise Brooks, Wallace Berry and Richard Arlen, will be screened on November 16th at the St. Marys Theater and Grand Opera...
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Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, to screen in Italy
Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Teatro di Fiesole in Fiesole, Italy (outside of Florence) on Saturday November 9, 2024. This screening is part of the Autunno...
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Happy Halloween from the Louise Brooks Society
Happy Halloween from the Louise Brooks Society! THE LEGAL STUFF: The Louise Brooks Society™ blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society (www.pandorasbox.com). Original...
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Notes on the new Criterion release of Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks
As most Louise Brooks and silent film fans likely know, Criterion has recently released Pandora's Box on DVD and Blu-ray. That's great news. This new release is a slightly repackaged version of their...
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The many visitors to the Louise Brooks Society website
Wow, how interesting it is to view my visitor log and stats - the country of origin, the DNS record, the made-up usernames.... One never knew Louise Brooks had so many anonymous fans in Ireland, and...
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The City Gone Wild, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1927
The City Gone Wild, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1927. The film a terse crime drama -- with gangsters, gangs, and gunfights, in which a criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to...
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Happy birthday Louise Brooks (1906 - 1985)
Happy birthday to Louise Brooks, who was born on this day, November 14, in Cherryvale, Kansas in 1906.Though I am not sure when, Louise was seemingly born in the very early hours of November 14th --...
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Louise Brooks and Pandorina skrinjica (Pandora's Box) in Slovenia
Longtime Louise Brooks Society supporter Camille Scaysbrook alerted me to this November 9th screening of Pandorina skrinjica (Pandora's Box) at the Slovenska Kinoteca in Delavska Zbornica, Slovenia....
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Louise Brooks-inspired thriller, The Haunting of Emily Pierson, now published
Scott R. Howe is a longtime fan of Louise Brooks, and a longtime supporter of the Louise Brooks Society. His novel, The Haunting of Emily Pierson, has just been published. The book is a revised and...
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Thanksgiving themed post from the Louise Brooks Society
In the late 1920s, Louise Brooks film's were shown on Thanksgiving day, as well as on just about every day of the year in some cities. This post highlights a few Thanksgiving screenings archived in the...
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Books about Louise Brooks from the Louise Brooks Society
Want to learn more about Louise Brooks and her life and films? Looking for something interesting to read, or the perfect holiday gift? To date, the Louise Brooks Society has published five books. Each...
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More new illustrations of Louise Brooks by Corinne Adams
As I stated back on September 9, Corrine Adams is a gifted artist / illustrator and fan of Louise Brooks. And just recently, she sent me a couple more illustrations of the actress. I am so pleased. My...
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Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in...
Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em, featuring Louise Brooks and Evelyn Brent, was released on this day in 1926. Based on a popular stage play, the filmis a topical drama about two flapper sisters — one “good” and...
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Kansas Silent Film Festival to Screen A Girl in Every Port in February
The line-up of films for this year's Kansas Silent Film Festival has been announced, and this year the venerable event will screen the Howard Hawks' film, A Girl in Every Port (1928), starring Victor...
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It's the Old Army Game, with W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks, screens in May 2025
Attention W.C. Fields fans, save the dates May 22-25, 2025! That's when the Columbus Moving Picture Show in Columbus, Ohio will screen 16mm prints of four of the legendary comedian's classic films,...
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The Indestructible Lee Miller and the Destructible Louise Brooks
Lee Miller and Louise Brooks, Louise Brooks and Lee Miller -- the artist and the actress, the actress and the artist. Should you know their lives, the two women at least a few things in common --...
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