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Louise Brooks, product placement, soap, and the 1931 film It Pays to...
Yesterday's blog post discussed the 1931 Louise Brooks' film It Pays to Advertise and the controversy stirred up by the film's prolific product placement. The post also discussed the campaign against...
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Louise Brooks, product placement, soap, and the 1931 film It Pays to...
And here is another newspaper article about the 1931 Louise Brooks' film It Pays to Advertise and the controversy stirred up by the film's prolific use of product placement. The article is in two...
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Louise Brooks - The Fatal Woman type in 1953 British advert
Louise Brooks listed among "The Fatal Woman" types in this 1953 advertisement for the season of films at the British Film Institute. This inclusion in a film series, just eight years after the end of...
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Louise Brooks, world wide celebrity, in a kimono
Louise Brooks was a world wide celebrity. Here she is -- an American movie star dressed in a Japanese kimono, as depicted in a Spanish publication..
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Louise Brooks: Snake Jewelry Fad Abroad She Reports
This article, "Snake Jewelry Fad Abroad She Reports," ran in newspaper in the United States on October 1st, 1930.
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Louise Brooks in New Zealand #1
While working on the Louise Brooks filmography pages on the Louise Brooks Society website, I have been digging around some newspaper archives in search of advertisements for screenings of the actress'...
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Louise Brooks in New Zealand #2
A follow-up to yesterday's post, about Louise Brooks related material found in vintage New Zealand newspapers. Here are a couple of nifty clippings which I am sure you will appreciate.
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Louise Brooks in Singapore (then British Malaysia) #1
While working on the Louise Brooks filmography pages on the Louise Brooks Society website, I have been digging around some newspaper archives in search of advertisements for screenings of the actress'...
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Louise Brooks in Singapore (then British Malaysia) #2
Here are a few more Louise Brooks movie advertisements from late 1920's Singapore (then British Malaysia) newspapers. Paramount films sure did get around!
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Louise Brooks: Cool Pic of the Day
Louise Brooks looks like she just returned from a trip from New Zealand or Singapore -- or is she ready to step out and have some fun?
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Slovenian advertisement with Louise Brooks and Marlene Dietrich
I recently came across this 1930 newspaper advertisement from Slovenia which promotes the showing of two films, Sinji angelj (The Blue Angel) with Marlene Dietrich, and a Louise Brooks film, here...
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Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks screens in Brooklyn, NY on Nov 8
Pandora's Box, the G.W. Pabst directed film starring Louise Brooks, will be shown one month from today at the Brooklyn Public Library on Sunday, November 8. The screening is free, and is part of a...
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KINO's new DVD and Blu-ray of The Diary of a Lost Girl starring Louise Brooks
Here I am holding advance copies of the new KINO DVD and Blu-ray of The Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), for which I provided the audio commentary -- and in which are revealed are number of previously...
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Louise Brooks in Dana Delany's library
Emmy award winner and longtime Louise Brooks Society member Dana Delany was recently asked by the New York Post which books figure prominently in her library. Her answer came as no surprise.Lulu in...
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New release: Diary of a Lost Girl first reviews
Diary of a Lost GirlThe second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst (Pandora's Box), DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious...
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The Rocky Twins - Louise Brooks look-alike drag queens from the 1930s
I recently came across a reference to The Rocky Twins -- a pair of Louise Brooks look-alike drag queens whose real names were Paal and Leif Rocky. They were Norwegian twins. According to the online...
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Louise Brooks event in San Francisco on November 14th
A special event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Louise Brooks Society and the release of the new KINO DVD and Blu-ray of The Diary of a Lost Girl will take place in San Francisco on Saturday,...
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The Diary of a Lost Girl giveaway
In anticipation of the October 20th release of The Diary of a Lost Girl DVD / Blu-ray from KINO, the Louise Brooks Society is sponsoring an Amazon giveaway of the Louise Brooks edition of The Diary of...
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Seeking your Louise Brooks story of discovery
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Louise Brooks Society is soliciting short essays from the actresses' many fans asking them to describe how and when they first came across Louise Brooks, and what...
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Jazz singer Hailey Tuck - her story of discovering Louise Brooks
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Louise Brooks Society (which went online back in 1995), fans of the actress were asked to submit their story of discovery -- of how they first came across...
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