When You're in Love - a round-up of reviews
When You're in Love was released on February 27th, 1937. The Robert Riskin directed and written film stars Grace Moore, Cary Grant, and Thomas Mitchell. Louise Brooks has an uncredited bit part as a...
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Louise Brooks to shine in Orinda, California (home of Fay Lanphier)
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. Robert and his novel will be introduced by Thomas...
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Event for The Vanity at Orinda Books
Great turn out today (some 50 people) for Robert Murillo's event for The Vanity at Orinda Books in Orinda, California. I introduced Louise Brooks and participated in the Q & A, and even autographed...
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Beggars of Life starring Louise Brooks screens in Scotland on March 13
The 4th annual Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema takes place in Scotland's oldest purpose-built cinema – the Hippodrome in Falkirk – this March.This year, the festival offers up screenings of...
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Alain Resnais, Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Dead at 91
French film director Alain Resnais has died at age 91. The New York Times obit for Resnais mentioned Louise Brooks.Resnais' famous 1961 film, Last Year at Marienbad was based on/inspired by Adolfo...
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On this day in 1927, Evening Clothes had its world premiere
On this day in 1927, Louise Brooks' eighth film, Evening Clothes, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan theater in Los Angeles, California. Adolphe Menjou was in attendance at that special event,...
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RadioLulu is streaming Louise Brooks music of the 1920s, 1930s and today
A reminder to be sure and check out RadioLulu - Louise Brooks inspired, silent film themed radio featuring music of the Twenties, Thirties and today - includes Brooks' related film music, early jazz,...
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Sale on Louise Brooks edition of The Diary of a Lost Girl
Between now and March 10, everything on Lulu.com is 20% off - use code SUPER20. That includes the Louise Brooks edition of The Diary of a Lost Girl, and essential title for every fan of silent film....
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Lulu7 a new take on Frank Wedekind's Lulu
Lulu7, a new work for the stage, is described as a sharp and witty take on Frank Wedekind's Lulu written by Abi Zakarian. In a series of interlinked monologues seven women play Lulu, charting her...
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Asta Nielsen as Lulu
Asta Nielsen and Charlie Chaplinas Adam and EveLately, I have been reading about the great Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972). Though she worked mostly in Germany, her fame transcended that...
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A few more images of Asta Nielsen
Here are a few more images of the divine Asta Nielsen.... To learn more, check out her Wikipedia or IMdB pages.
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Beggars of Life screens in Scotland at Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
The 1928 Louise Brooks film, Beggars of Life, will be shown today at the 4th annual Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, which takes place in Scotland's oldest purpose-built cinema – the Hippodrome in...
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Nominate Louise Brooks films for the National Film Registry
The United States Congress first established the National Film Registry in the 1988. Along with mandating continuing implementation of a plan to save the American film heritage, this law authorizes the...
View ArticleWatch a Rare Louise Brooks Documentary I
Here is a rare British television documentary about Louise Brooks from 1986, shown the year after the actress died and three years before the release of the Barry Paris biography. Except for a couple...
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Here is a rare British television documentary about Louise Brooks from 1986, shown the year after the actress died and three years before the release of the Barry Paris biography. Except for a couple...
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Seeking a copy of BBC program, Icons: Louise Brooks
Does anyone have a copy of the 15-20 minute BBC program called Icons, specifically the Louise Brooks episode?It first aired on the BBC in 2001, and was repeated in 2002, 2003, and 2004. It also aired...
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Evening Clothes - A Round-up of Reviews
Evening Clothes, Louise Brooks' eighth film, was officially released on this day in 1927. The film is a comedy-drama about a French gentleman farmer who, spurned by his bride, goes to Paris in order to...
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Polish edition of Laura Moriarty's Louise Brooks novel, The Chaperone
The Polish edition of Laura Moriarty's novel, The Chaperone, has been published by Bukowy Las. In Poland, the book is titled Przyzwoitka. Alas, there is no Louise Brooks cover art. Here is the...
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Love Letters of an Interior Decorator - 1928 fiction which mentions Louise...
Show Girl, by J. P. McEvoy, is well known among devotees of Louise Brooks as the first novel to feature a major character or storyline inspired by the actress. First serialized in Liberty magazine in...
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