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R.I.P. Jan Wahl - author extraordinaire and friend of Louise Brooks
With great sadness, the Louise Brooks Society marks the passing of Jan Wahl (1931-2019), author extraordinaire and friend of Louise Brooks. The Toledo Blade noted the esteemed children's author passed...
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BBC Radio 4 to air Louise Brooks radio drama on February 9
BBC Radio 4 will air an original radio drama about Louise Brooks on February 9. The 57 minute piece, titled Opening Pandora's Box, was written by Katie Hims. More information can be found HERE.Opening...
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Official Trailer for Louise Brooks inspired film The Chaperone
A release date has been set and a trailer released for the new Louise Brooks inspired film The Chaperone. According to it's Facebook page and IMDb page and other sources, the film opens in theaters in...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks : The Enigma of Louise Brooks
It has long been thought that the post-WWII revival of interest in Louise Brooks began in France in the late 1950s. However, some newly uncovered material suggests that while this revival may have...
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Upcoming Kansas Silent Film Festival
The 2019 Kansas Silent Film Festival is set to take place Friday & Saturday, February 23 & 24, 2018, at White Concert Hall, Washburn University, in Topeka, Kansas. The theme of this year's...
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A bit more on Louise Brooks inspired film, The Chaperone
From the writer / director of Downton Abbey and star Elizabeth McGovern comes The Chaperone, a Louise Brooks inspired film in which the future film star is a major character. The film tells the story...
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Last night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before
I have been working day and night on my latest book project, Around the World with Louise Brooks: the making of an international star. And as of today, I have nearly 550 pages completed, and hope to...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks : With Thanks
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I have been working on a long-in-the-making project, a book titled Around the World with Louise Brooks. I have been working on this book on-and-off for almost 20...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks: Brazil
Here are some rather nifty pages from Cinearte, one of the leading Brazilian film magazines. Louise Brooks seemed to have been especially popular in that Latin American nation. I say that because she...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks - a Postcard Biography from Spain
Here is something you don't see everyday, a Spanish cigarette card with a brief biography of the actress -- her identified as Luisa Brooks - on the reverse. (Generally speaking cigarette cards are...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks : Paramount's KNX Radio Station in Los...
Who might know more about the Paramount radio station, KNX in Los Angeles? Is it the same, or related to, the KNX super-station currently heard in the LA area? Is there a history of the station or of...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks : Where and how her films were distributed
Fourteen of the twenty-four films in Louise Brooks' filmography were Paramount productions. That includes all of her American silent films except Just Another Blonde (1926) and A Girl in Every Port...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, to show in Istanbul, Turkey on March 10
The Kundura Cinema in Istanbul, Turkey will screen the internationally acclaimed Louise Brooks' film, Pandora's Box (1929). The film, titled locally as Pandora’nın Kutusu’nun, will be shown on March...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks - Paramount in the Middle East
A follow-up to last week's blog about how and where Paramount films were distributed, as well as Paramount's presence in the Middle East in the late 1920's and early 1930s, at the height of Louise...
View ArticleLotte Eisner in Germany (1980), speaking on Louise Brooks, G.W. Pabst and others
In this short 1980 documentary by Mark Horowitz, the pioneering film archivist and historian Lotte Eisner (1896-1983), who fled Nazi Germany for Paris where she helped establish La Cinémathèque...
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Beggars of Life with the Dodge Brothers in Nottingham, England on March 17
Thanks to longtime Louise Brooks Society member Meredith Lawrence for letting us know about this Sunday, March 17th screening of Beggars of Life at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, England. The...
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New French comic features a Louise Brooks-inspired character
Thanks to longtime Louise Brooks Society member Vanwall Green for sharing this graphic announcing a new Italian comic featuring a Louise Brooks-inspired character. The 304 page comic, Hollywoodland, is...
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Beatriz Corta, a striking Louise Brooks look-alike from Portugal
This striking Louise Brooks look-alike is Beatriz Corta. I came across this magazine page while researching my forthcoming book, Around the World with Louise Brook. The image is dated 1933. It caught...
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A few thoughts on the Louise Brooks-inspired PBS Masterpiece film, The Chaperone
I've seen The Chaperone, and I like it. It's a good film, and its heart is in the right place. I could well imagine watching it again in the future when I want a dose of Haley Lu Richardson's charm:...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens at Niles Essanay Film Museum
The Niles Essanay Film Museum in Niles (Fremont), California has announced that it will be screening the 1929 Louise Brooks film, Pandora's Box, on Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 PM. Gideon Freudmann will...
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