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Today: Louise Brooks' in Beggars of Life screens in Greeley, Colorado
Later today, the sensational 1928 Louise Brooks'film Beggars of Life will be shown in Greeley, Colorado with live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (pictured below). This...
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Today: Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box screens on Isle of Wight
Later today, the sensational 1929 Louise Brooks' film Pandora's Box will be shown on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. This 7:45 pm screening will take place at the at the...
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Tonka of the Gallows and other points of interest and revelation at this...
There are a number of really fine films being shown at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Some of them may be familiar to silent film buffs (like the Buster Keaton and Lon Chaney films),...
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Pandora's Box starring Louise Brooks shows in Denver, Colorado on May 9
The sensational 1929 Louise Brooks' film, Pandora's Box, will be shown at The Preservery in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, May 9th. More information about this event, as well as ticket availability, can...
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New Book Features Louise Brooks - Women of the 1920s: Style, Glamour, and the...
A new book, Women of the 1920s: Style, Glamour, and the Avant-Garde by Thomas Bleitner, looks at the lives of seventeen influential women of the Jazz Age -- one of those seventeen is Louise Brooks....
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Diary of a Lost Girl starring Louise Brooks to show twice at BFI Southbank in...
The sensational 1929 Louise Brooks' film Diary of a Lost Girl will be shown at the BFI Southbank in London, England in June as part of the Weimar Cinema 1919-1933 series. Diary will be shown twice, on...
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Facts matter: Louise Brooks and some mistaken eBay listings
As there are with other movie stars and other cultural icons, there is a fair amount of misinformation floating around the internet regarding Louise Brooks. This misinformation ranges from simple...
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A Refurbished Louise Brooks Society blog - check it out!
The 17-year old Louise Brooks Society blog -- located at http://louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/ -- has been recently refurbished, brought up-to-date, and made spick-and-span. Notably, new...
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From Louise Brooks to Downton Abbey to The Chaperone to Downton Abbey and...
The new trailer for the forthcoming Downton Abbey movie has just been released, and guess what, Lady Mary Crawley (played by charming actress Michelle Dockery) has a keen Louise Brooks hairstyle. It's...
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Colleen Moore celebration at Niles Essanay Film Museum
If you are a fan of Louise Brooks, chances are you also have an appreciation for Colleen Moore. . . . On May 25, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California is celebrating the great...
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Clarence Brown : Hollywood's Forgotten Master (and some Louise Brooks...
One of the pleasures of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival is opportunity to meet some of the authors, scholars, and film world personalities in attendance at the annual event. I haven't missed a...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, airs June 3rd on TCM (Turner Classic...
The sensational 1929 Louise Brooks film, Pandora's Box, will be shown on June 3rd on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in the United States and Canada. The German silent, directed by G.W. Pabst, will air at...
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Lulu: The Louise Brooks Story - a new musical coming to the UK
1928 Limited presentsLulu:The Louise Brooks StoryOctober 3, 4, 5, 2019at the Doncaster Little Theatre in Doncaster, England A new musical, set in the glamorous excess of the 1920s, telling the story...
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Louise Brooks segment on "Positively Kansas" TV show
Louise Brooks can rightly be called a persistent star. And with the recent release of The Chaperone, this now more-famous-than-ever silent film actress is enjoying renewed attention. As Positively...
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A few biblio-curiosities: unrelated vintage books with the titles of Louise...
As most fans know, a handful of Louise Brooks' films, like Beggars of Life and The Canary Murder Case, were based on once well known books of the same name. Other films were based on well known stage...
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Norwood Public Library hosts The Chaperone reading group on June 19
The Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood, Massachusetts will host a reading group on June 19 to discuss The Chaperone. More information can be found HERE. Turn the Page Book Group - The...
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Louise Brooks (or Louise Fazenda) on Sing it Again radio show
Well, here is something of a minor mystery in my ongoing research into the history of Louise Brooks and radio. It begins with these two 1950 clippings from the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. Sing It...
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? and the Louise Brooks connection
I finally got around to watching Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the based-on-a-true story about a literary forger starring Melissa McCarthy. It is a brilliant film, but not one I can say I enjoyed watching....
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My Afternoon With Louise Brooks - Kickstarter campaign for a limited edition...
I encourage everyone to check out My Afternoon With Louise Brooks - a Kickstarter campaign for a limited edition, signed and number hardback book by Tom Graves. This Kickstarter campaign runs two...
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Q & A with Tom Graves, author of My Afternoon with Louise Brooks
If you haven't already done so, I would like to encourage you to check out Tom Graves'Kickstarter campaign for a limited edition copy of his book, My Afternoon with Louise Brooks. It is an account of...
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