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Memoirs of a silent film loving bookseller, as told through "baseball" cards,...
This post continues a kind of sidebar to a long and heavily illustrated piece I wrote called "One booksellers memoirs, told through 'baseball' cards." That piece is awaiting publication, when and if it...
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Little known 1931 interview with Louise Brooks uncovered
It's rare these days when a truly "new" (meaning little seen) image or magazine clipping about Louise Brooks comes to light. Many of the images which circulate online are "recycled" from past posts on...
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Another newly uncovered interview you will want to read
Speaking of newly uncovered interviews . . . . The last post featured a newly uncovered 1931 interview with Louise Brooks which which appeared in the Wichita Eagle in May of that year. The article...
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Buffalo Film Seminars to screen Pandoras Box online
The Buffalo Film Seminars, the popular film series connected with the University of Buffalo, have decided to continue their screening of classic and contemporary films online, for the time being (due...
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An account of Louise Brooks 1940s Wichita interlude
This post is the third in a series highlighting newly available material uncovered as more issues of the various Wichita newspapers have come online. As mentioned, I have been systematically plowing...
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Louise Brooks and the mystery of missing time
In researching the life and career of Louise Brooks, there are two brief intervals which remain something of a mystery. The first was Brooks' first visit to Paris in 1924. The second were the months...
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A follow-up to Louise Brooks and the mystery of missing time
In my last post, I wrote about two little documented periods in the life of Louise Brooks. One of them was the couple three weeks Brooks spent in Paris, France in the Fall of 1924. She had gone there...
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Another Louise Brooks-related mystery
In 1927, Louise Brooks' mother went on tour. Myra Brooks joined the Chautauqua circuit, an adult education / social movement that brought culture to small towns and communities across the United States...
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Myra Brooks and the Redpath Chautauqua tour of 1927
Chautauqua was an American social movement which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Remnants of the original Chautauqua movement still exist today. In the Teens and Twenties,...
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Meet Myra Brooks and her daughter Louise
I can't believe this gem of an article has escaped me until now. "Meeting the Mother of a Film Favorite," a profile of Myra Brooks, dates from February 1927. It paints a vivid portrait of a vivid...
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More on Myra Brooks and the Redpath Chautauqua tour of 1927
Since my September 13, 2021 post "Myra Brooks and the Redpath Chautauqua tour of 1927", a handful of additional details have come to light. . . . I want to share some of this "new" information.One...
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Myra Brooks, leading Wichita book reviewer
Like her daughter Louise, Myra Brooks was a reader of books. And what's more, she was also a reviewer of books. On and off from the mid-to-late 1930s through the early 1940s, Myra appeared before...
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Louise Brooks, and the avant-garde design of Polish magazines
Louise Brooks was a truly an international star. And she still is. My forthcoming two volume work, Around the World with Louise Brooks, makes that very point by including more than 75 vintage...
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File under unlikely - Max Factor mentions Louise Brooks
File this under unlikely: In late 1935, renown beautician & "Hollywood Make-Up Genius"Max Factor penned an article under the title "Hollywood Beauty Secrets." The piece looked at changing notions...
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Celebrating National Silent Movie Day and silent film star Baby Peggy
Today is the 1st ever National Silent Movie Day, an new annual event dedicated to celebrating, preserving and creating access to silent film. Why such a day? Why such a celebration? While the silent...
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Remembering Reading the Stars: The Silent Era, part 1
In my previous post marking National Silent Movie Day, I posted a video of my 10 year old interview with the one-time silent film star Diana Serra Cary, who during the silent era was known as "Baby...
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Remembering Reading the Stars: The Silent Era, part 2
In my previous post, I presented general information about an exhibit I curated called"Reading the Stars: The Silent Era." The exhibit, which was on display at the San Francisco Public Library in 2011,...
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Guest Post: Barbara and Louise - a Friendship Set Sail
Philip Vorwald has written-up a fascinating guest post here on the Louise Brooks Society blog about the trip Barbara Bennett and Louise Brooks took to Europe in 1924. Philip's post is titled "Barbara...
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Louise Brooks - Her Last Hurrah in 1931
I recently noticed that the fabulous Media History Digital Library has a bunch of issues of Broadway and Hollywood Movies magazine dating from 1930 through 1934. That's five years worth of stylish...
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More about Louise Brooks in the early 1930s
It is a shame Louise Brooks' career fizzled out in the early 1930s. She could have been a contender.In early 1930, publications carried stories of Brooks’ return to Hollywood. Behind the scenes, the...
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