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New Find 5 - another RARE Portrait of Louise Brooks
There is still a lot of interesting Louise Brooks & silent film material yet to discover. This post is the fifth in an ongoing series highlighting some of the newly found material I have just...
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New Find 6 - a few Louise Brooks treasures from opened archives
There is still a lot of interesting Louise Brooks & silent film material yet to discover. This post is the sixth in an ongoing series highlighting some of the newly found material I have just...
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Louise Brooks locations tour postponed until 2021
The Louise Brooks' locations tour, sponsored by the Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York and hosted by filmmaker Charlotte Siller, has been postponed. The tour, set to coincide with the 6th Nitrate...
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Louise Brooks retrospective in Switzerland postponed
A major Louise Brooks film retrospective - originally set to run March 30th through May 15 in Zurich, Switzerland - has been postponed due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Organized by Filmpodium...
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New Find 7 - Extremely Rare Louise Brooks Puzzle from Before She Entered Films
There is still a lot of interesting Louise Brooks & silent film material yet to discover. This post is the seventh in an ongoing series highlighting some of the newly found material I have just...
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Update on Around the World with Louise Brooks
This blog post is my first this month. Instead of blogging regularly, I have been concentrating my efforts on my two volume book project, Around the World with Louise Brooks, which I hope to finish by...
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As seen on TV - Louise Brooks the Persistent Star gets screen time during LA...
My book, Louise Brooks the Persistent Star, received some screen time the other day during a news story on Los Angeles TV. The 2018 book can be seen over Jeff Mantor's right shoulder throughout the...
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Video Diary of a Lost Girl - Louise Brooks homage from Pandora's Talk Box...
Here's something unusual from, a Louise Brooks homage titled Video Diary of a Lost Girl from a indy film group called Pandora's Talk Box Productions. This 2012 video, which I only recently came across...
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Some Charlie Chaplin news, and a bit of Louise Brooks too
First off, let me thank long-time friend Rena Azevedo Kiehn of the Niles Essanay Film Museum for sending me a pair of Louise Brooks face masks. What an unexpected delight. They should help fend off the...
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Richard Sala (1959-2020), friend of the Louise Brooks Society
With much sadness the Louise Brooks Society mourns the passing of Richard Sala (1959-2020), an acclaimed cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator and longtime friend to the LBS. Sala was found...
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Giving it away at a Louise Brooks screening
I suppose we have all heard about how, in the past, theatres would give away things for free in order to lure viewers. I remember my mother, who as a girl and young women went to the movies in the...
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A bit more from Around the World with Louise Brooks via the USA
As I blogged just recently, most all of the material in my forthcoming book, Around the World with Louise Brooks, have been sourced from international publications. The only exception is a chapter from...
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A few bits about Louise Brooks and Tulsa (and Sue Read)
The other day, I was thinking about Louise Brooks and Tulsa.... and whatever connections there may be between the actress and the Oklahoma city. The earliest mention of Brooks in one of the Tulsa...
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Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore and Clara Bow too
In my last blog, I included a couple of 1934 clippings about Sue Read, a pretty, bob-haired young radio singer who was said to resemble Colleen Moore and Louise Brooks. It was an apt comparison, as the...
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Three of a kind - More on Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore and Clara Bow
A follow-up to my previous post on Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore and Clara Box . . . and a brief excerpt from volume 1 of my forthcoming book, Around the World with Louise Brooks. The previous post,...
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Louise Brooks - Two Parallel Lives by Laura Scaramozzino
I just became aware of a new book, Louise Brooks. Due vite Parallele (Louise Brooks: Two Parallel Lives) by Laura Scaramozzino. From what I can tell, it's an Italian noir fantasy novel in which...
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Pandora's Box for sale, belonged to producer of Louise Brooks film
Here is something you don't see every day.... An early edition copy of Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box has come up for sale. What makes it unusual is not its age, though vintage copies of the classic...
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Jack Garner, longtime film critic and friend to Louise Brooks, dies
Jack Garner, longtime Rochester, New York film critic and friend to Louise Brooks and the Louise Brooks Society, has died at the age of age of 75. Garner was the longtime film critic for the Rochester...
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Remembering Jack Garner, film critic and friend of Louise Brooks
Word came one week ago of the passing of Jack Garner, the longtime Rochester Democrat and Chronicle film critic and friend to Louise Brooks. (Read that post HERE.) Since then, Jack has been on my mind....
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Silents Under the Stars Streaming Live
There is a lot of good and great silent movies and related content streaming live "these days," by which I mean during the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, I have written about the Cineteca Milano,...
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