Documentary About the Great Writers Who Sat at the Algonquin Round Table
Barry Paris' swonderful biography of Louise Brooks details the time the then 17 year old actress lived at the famous Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The building, located at 59 West 44th Street in...
View ArticleEnglish advertisement features Louise Brooks
Nick Wrigley sent word that this newspaper advertisement from Bolton, Lancashire, England has long featured Louise Brooks.
View ArticleSammy Tramp sings "Mack The Knife"
Sammich the Tramp (also known as Sammy Tramp) is a multi-talented, Chaplinesque perfomer. She is Creator/Founder at Sammy Tramp's Traveling Flicker Factory and Artistic Director/Producer at The...
View ArticleBenevolent Siren - Remembering Louise Brooks (iconic silent film beauty)
Book trailer from Daily Motion: "Louise Brooks endures as one of silent film's most charismatic and contemporary actresses. Immortalized in Pandora's Box, she left a disinterested Hollywood to suffer...
View ArticleAll Movies Love the Moon Trailer
Louise Brooks is pictured in this trailer for a forthcoming book, Gregory Robinson's All Movies Love the Moon: Prose Poems on Silent Film, to be published by Rose Metal Press in March 2014. The book...
View ArticleFeminine beauty as blinding as ten galaxial suns
"Louise Brooks is the only woman who had the ability to transfigure no matter what film into a masterpiece. The poetry of Louise is the great poetry of rare loves, of magnetism, of tension, of feminine...
View ArticlePandora's Box screens in Toronto, Canada on Jan 26
Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, will screen in Toronto, Canada on Sunday January 26th at the Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue). More info here. Event Time(s):4:15 p.m. Website:...
View ArticlePandora's Box screens in Seattle, Washington on Jan 27
STG PresentsTrader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays - Pandora's BoxFeaturing Jim Riggs on the Mighty Wurlitzer OrganMonday, January 27, 2014Doors at 6:00 pm / Show at 7:00 pmThe Paramount Theatre911 Pine...
View ArticleLouise Brooks in a Swedish cafe
Image of Louise Brooks displayed at Cafe UB in Sweden. Twitter pic image via Kristian Nilsson.
View ArticleLouise Brooks Encyclopedia: Emil Coleman
Welcome to a new feature of the Louise Brooks Society blog - the Louise Brooks Encyclopedia. The first entry is devoted to bandleader Emil Coleman. In 1935, Coleman and his Orchestra shared the bill...
View ArticleTwo screenings of Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks
Pandora's Box is a silent film that just won't go away.Largely panned when it debuted in 1929, this German-made film starring Louise Brooks has experienced a decades-long comeback and is now considered...
View ArticleLouise Brooks :: Timelock :: Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks :: T.i.m.e.l.o.c.k. :: Louise BrooksLouise Brooks :: T.i.m.e.l.o.c.k. :: Louise BrooksReleased January 1, 1992 More at http://www.last.fm/music/Timelock/Louise+Brooks
View ArticleLouise Brooks in a scene from Prix de Beauté
Louise Brooks in a scene from Prix de Beauté (1930). Beautiful you are....
View ArticleLouise Brooks stars in Pandora's Box in Luxembourg
Pandora's Box (1929), starring Louise Brooks, will be shown in Luxembourg on February 4th. Here is the write-up from the venue, Philharmonie, place de l’Europe, Luxembourg-Kirchberg."The Ensemble...
View ArticleLouise Brooks in a scene from Pandora's Box
Louise Brooks as Lulu - from the 1929 film Pandora's Box, directed by G.W. Pabst.The film is being shown in Luxembourg next week. See previous post.
View ArticleWhat's missing from Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
February will seen the launch of Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema. It is a 21 film salute to the best movies from Poland. Unfortunately, there are no silent films among the many...
View ArticleEvent for author Robert Murillo for his Louise Brooks inspired novel, The Vanity
One month from today, on March 1st at 1 pm, author Robert Murillo will read from his new Louise Brooks inspired novel, The Vanity, at Orinda Books in Orinda, California. I will be there to introduce...
View ArticleNew play inspired by Louise Brooks, "The Winter Gift" by Tim Davies
A new play about Louise Brooks titled The Winter Gift is set to open in the UK. From the venue website: "A new play by award winning writer Tim Davies, charting the tumultuous life of legendary silent...
View ArticleNew exhibit includes Louise Brooks character
A new exhibit which includes Louise Brooks is set to open February 5th at Dixon Place in New York City. Here is more information from the artist:THE CHORUS GIRL SHOW by Carolyn Raship Come to Dixon...
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