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Louise Brooks shoots marbles
Louise Brooks, far left, shoots marble with other junior Paramount stars, 1927
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Louise Brooks, Wichita Kansas girl scout
In the early 1920s, Louise Brooks was a member of the Girl Scouts. In fact, according to this 1921 article in the Wichita Eagle newspaper, she was a member of one of the first girl scout troops in...
View ArticleNovember 14th + Google doodle = Louise Brooks
Why not suggest Louise Brooks become a Google doodle on her birthday, November 14th. Send a suggestion to proposals@google.com
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On this day in 1928: Two Louise Brooks films show in Oil City, Pennsylvania
Break out the time machine. . . . on this day in 1928, not just one but TWO films featuring Louise Brooks were showing in Oil City, Pennsylvania. The local newspaper, the Oil City Derrick, advertised...
View ArticleDenishawn dance, what did it look like?
For two seasons, a teenage Louise Brooks was a junior member of the Denishawn Dance Company - then the leading modern dance troupe in America. During the 1922-1923 and 1923-1924 seasons, Brooks...
View ArticleDenishawn: Ruth St. Denis documentary & interview
Denishawn founder Ruth St. Denis speaks in five part video documentary, embedded below. Originally compiled for a presentation at the National Museum of Dance in 2006.Part onePart twoPart threePart...
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Louise Brooks & Anna Pavlova
As is known, Louise Brooks was a member of the Denishawn Dance Company (then the leading modern dance troupe in America). She joined the company at age 15, and danced with them as a junior member for...
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Louise Brooks teenage dancer and choreographer
It is known that prior to joining the Denishawn Dance Company, a young Louise Brooks danced at many local events. These events were held at local clubs, churches, and meeting halls. What has not been...
View ArticleSometimes I'm Happy - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (and Louise Brooks too)
Here is "Sometimes I'm Happy" with Red Nichols & His Five Pennies. This video makes me happy all the time because it features Louise Brooks. The song was recorded in New York City on January 24,...
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A gathering of silent film articles, part one
I've been writing for examiner.com for 5 years. In that time, I've written hundreds of pieces about film and film culture culture in the silent and early sound era. To mark my fifth anniversary as the...
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A gathering of silent film articles, part two
I've been writing for examiner.com for 5 years. In that time, I've written hundreds of pieces about film and film culture culture in the silent and early sound era. To mark my fifth anniversary as the...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Hollywood
This short documentary titled "The Ghosts of Hollywood" shows the sad condition of many of the silent movie studios in Hollywood as they appeared in the 1930s. Included are the Keystone and Metro...
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Cool pic of the Day: Louise Brooks in a bathing suite
Cool pic of the Day: Louise Brooks in a bathing suite
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Come on - let's do this! Nominate the Louise Brooks' film Beggars of Life for...
The United States Congress established the National Film Registry in 1988. Along with mandating the continuing implementation of a plan to save America's film heritage, the law authorizes the Librarian...
View ArticleSuicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two
Presented here is the trailer for the feature film Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two - a black comedy science fiction story about obsession, madness and what one man will do to attain...
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Exploring the Library of Congress photo collections
The Library of Congress has an extraordinary collection of images available on-line through its Prints and Photographs division. This database is searchable by keyword, and some of the...
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Desperately Seeking Marie Prevost
I like to listen to music while blogging, crawling the web, or working on the LBS website. Today, I listened to Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe. I hadn't listened to it in long time. This Nick Lowe CD...
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Did Ronald Colman have a thing for Louise Brooks?
"Louise Brooks' eyes are marvelous. They are large and dark brown in color. They fascinate me." So, supposedly, stated Ronald Colman in the November, 1929 issue of Screen Secrets in an article by Bob...
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Every picture postcard tells a story....
Every picture postcard tells a story.... For example, this French postcard was used in the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1931. The stamp, from 1926, depicts King Alexander I, also known as Alexander...
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New book - Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Recently released by the University Press of Kentucky is Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale, by Mariusz Kotowski. This 320 page book is, I believe, the first English language biography of...
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