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Louise Brooks' film Beggars of Life begins three day run in Austin, Texas
The Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas is screening the "newly restored" 1928 Louise Brooks film, Beggars of Life on Friday January 5th, Saturday, January 6th, and Monday, January 8th. Here is the...
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A few Louise Brooks related announcements
Here are a few Louise Brooks related announcements:Pandora's Box, the sensational 1929 film starring Louise Brooks, is set to screen in Chicago, Illinois on April 3, 2018. The movie will be accompanied...
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Weimar German culture seems to be trending.....
Weimar Germany seems to be trending..... I just came across a rather good article in Tablet magazine about the avant-garde performer Valeska Gert. "The Forgotten World of the Badass Valeska Gert," by...
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A new autographed Louise Brooks related treasure
Recently, I added a new treasure to my collection of Louise Brooks related autographed books.Over the years, I have collected all manner of items -- including vintage autographed copies of books which...
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Now We're in the Air, starring Louise Brooks, to screen at NY Museum of...
Now We're in the Air, the once lost comedy starring Louise Brooks, is set to screen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on January 19 as part of "To Save and Project: The 15th MoMA...
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Louise Brooks' film Beggars of Life screens in Tromsø, Norway TODAY!
Beggars of Life will be shown in Tromsø, Norway later today. This event, sponsored by the Tromsø International Film Festival, is part of the festival's "Special Screenings" series. More information...
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Sleeping with Louise / Lulu / Valentina
As devotees of Louise Brooks may know, the Italian cartoonist / illustrator / graphic novelist Guido Crepax (1933 - 2003) had a thing for Louise Brooks. In fact, his most famous creation, Valentina,...
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Louise Brooks' film Beggars of Life shows on Long Island TOMORROW
The riveting 1928 silent film, Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Cinema Arts Centre on Wednesday, January 24th at 7:30 pm. Part of the "Anything But Silent" series, this...
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A new cover on John Kobal's Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars,...
John Kobal's classic pictorial, Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949, was first published in 1976 by Dover Publications, the same publisher that issued Marshall Deutelbaum's Image...
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Diary of a Lost Girl starring Louise Brooks Screens in Germany on Jan 26
The sensational 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, will be shown in Munich, Germany at the Munich Film Museum on Friday, January 26th. That's today! The information below can be found on...
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Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks screens in Manchester, England today!
A 35mm print of Pandora's Box will be shown at HOME in Manchester, England on January 28. That's today! This special event will feature live music by Stephen Horne and an introduction by Pamela...
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Spotlighting Louise Brooks: From the Kansas Prairie to the German Silver Screen
Announcing an important event: "Spotlighting Louise Brooks: From the Kansas Prairie to the German Silver Screen"The German Program in the Department of Modern Languages is proud to present:...
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Media History Digital Library celebrates Pandora's Box
The Media History Digital Library, a 'swonderful site if there ever was one (and one which I have spent hours and hours going through) celebrates the anniversary of the release of Pandora's Box (1929),...
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Louise Brooks and Volker Kutscher’s Babylon Berlin (the book and the TV series)
Volker Kutscher’s bestselling work of crime fiction, Babylon Berlin, has just been published in the United States by Picador. The book was an instant hit in Germany. Part of a mutli-book series, it was...
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Louise Brooks adorns the cover of new edition of The Photoplay by Hugo...
Louise Brooks adorns the cover of a new edition of The Photoplay by Hugo Münsterberg, as published by Duke Classics. First published more than 100 years ago, this early work of film theory is in the...
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Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, screens May 18th at Yorkshire Silent...
On May 18, the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival in Scarborough, England will screen the now classic 1928 Louise Brooks' film, Beggars of Life. More information about this event can be found HERE.The...
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Louise Brooks is not from these parts, by Luca Spagnoletti
I don't know what it's about (except that it is a novel), or if it has much of anything to do with our Miss Brooks, but there is a new book out in Italy called Louise Brooks non è di queste parti...
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It's the Old Army Game announced for release on DVD / Blu-ray
It's the Old Army Game, the delightful 1926 comedy starring W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks, has been announced for release on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland,...
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Some Miscellaneous Images from the Jazz Age
Recently, I was looking through an online magazine archive and came across a handful of interesting, appealing and and novel images. And here they are -- a small gathering of miscellaneous images from...
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Edgar Blue Washington
To mark Black History Month, the Louise Brooks Society blog presents this post about actor Edgar "Blue" Washington, a supporting player in the 1928 Louise Brooks film, Beggars of Life.Black Mose,...
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