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On Christmas Day in 1927, Louise Brooks celebrates with friends and co-stars
On Christmas Day in 1927, according to various press accounts, Louise Brooks was a guest at the home of Wallace Beery.Irene Thirer wrote in the New York Daily News about celebrity plans for celebrating...
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Louise Brooks biopic screens on PBS in NYC on December 31
Is The Chaperone, the Louise Brooks biopic about her early days as a dancer, becoming a new holiday TV favorite? The PBS produced film made its television debut in 2019 just before Thanksgiving, with...
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Louise Brooks - the year in review 2020
It has been quite a year. Louise Brooks passed away 35 years ago, but still there is considerable interest in this singular dancer, silent film actress, & writer. This year, 2020, saw new articles,...
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Happy New Year from the Louise Brooks Society
Happy New Year from the Louise Brooks Society. Best wishes to everyone who reads and follows this blog and the LBS website at www.pandorasbox.com. To mark the occasion, here are a few little seen...
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Louise Brooks and The Street of Forgotten Men, part 1
The public domain is just starting to catch up with the film career of Louise Brooks. As of January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 have entered the United States public domain, where they are...
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Louise Brooks and The Street of Forgotten Men, part 2
The public domain is just starting to catch up with the film career of Louise Brooks. As of January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 have entered the United States public domain, where they are...
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Louise Brooks and The Street of Forgotten Men, part 3
The public domain is just starting to catch up with the film career of Louise Brooks. As of January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 have entered the United States public domain, where they are...
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Nazi hatred of Charlie Chaplin, along with mention of a Louise Brooks film
Late last year, I ran a short series of blogs highlighting some of the new and unusual material I have come across while researching Louise Brooks' life and career. This was research conducted over the...
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Criterion version of Louise Brooks' film Pandora's Box streams online
The Criterion version of the 1929 Louise Brooks' film Pandora's Box is streaming online through Alamo on Demand. Individuals may purchase the film for $14.99, or rent it for $2.99. More information...
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Louise Brooks, a Berlin caricature and an historical nexus
Late last year, I ran a short series of blogs highlighting some of the new and unusual material I have come across while researching Louise Brooks' life and career. This was research conducted over the...
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A little more about Erskine Gwynne and the Eskimo
While writing my previous post about Erskine Gwynne, Louise Brooks, and the Eskimo, I was intrigued to learn more about Gwynne, a somewhat obscure figure in history. Despite his accomplishments as an...
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A poem on the theme of love, and an advert of a Louise Brooks film on the...
Late last year, I ran a short series of blogs highlighting some of the new and unusual material I have come across while researching Louise Brooks' life and career. This was research conducted over the...
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The Challenge of Researching Louise Brooks and Silent Film
I continue to look for any sort of documentation of Louise Brooks films showing around the world. Not just in Europe or the Americas, but also in Asia, the Middle East, and north Africa. I have to date...
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on Louise Brooks and Pandora's Box
During yesterday's online listening party for the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album Sugar Tax, I tweeted lead singer Andy McCluskey a question about "Pandora's Box" - and he responded...
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark sings of Louise Brooks in Chile two years...
Two years ago today -- which seems like an eternity, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark played a concert at teatro La Cúpula in Santiago, Chile. During their show, they performed a bunch of their...
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Louise Brooks film to screen at Kansas Silent Film Festival in New Hampshire
This month, a New Hampshire theater will host a relocated version of the Kansas Silent Film Festival, an annual vintage film event cancelled this year due to Covid-19. In honor of the scrubbed Kansas...
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Louise Brooks and Sherlock Holmes, a certain overlap
Louise Brooks and Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Louise Brooks. Those are two names not often, if ever, associated with one another. Louise Brooks was an American movie star whose heyday was the...
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Louise Brooks and famous Black entertainers of the 1920s
To mark Black History Month, I thought to put together a blog noting some of the African American entertainers who Louise Brooks met in the 1920s, or whose careers intersected with Brooks in some way....
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On this day in 1930, Louise Brooks' 1920s films were still showing here and...
Like the actress herself, Louise Brooks' films had legs. Even in the United States, and even into the sound era, Brooks' late 1920's films like A Girl in Every Port (1928), Beggars of Life (1928), and...
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Louise Brooks film to screen online as part of Hippodrome Silent Film Festival
This year, the annual Hippodrome Silent Film Festival celebrating silent film and music will include the seldom seen silent version of the outstanding 1930 Louise Brooks film, Prix de Beauté....
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