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Searching the Young Companion magazine for Louise Brooks
Speaking of Chinese magazines on the Internet Archive, I also came across a bunch of issues of The Liangyou (良友 The Young Companion) magazine, which was published in Shanghai and founded by Wu Liande...
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Recommended Reading on Early Film
Here is a small selection of new and recommended books on early film (the silent and early sound era). Perhaps it's just me, but it seems there are fewer appealing books on this increasingly distant...
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Happy holidays from the Louise Brooks Society
Happy holidays from the Louise Brooks Society! What a year it has been, and what a year next year promises to be. BTW, it's never too late to buy the LBS a little something. Check out the newly updated...
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Around the World with Louise Brooks
I have good news and not so good news.... First the not so good news. Despite the fact that I have steadily applied myself to working on my two volume book, Around the World with Louise Brooks, I will...
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Happy New Year from the Louise Brooks Society
Happy New Year from the Louise Brooks Society. Lets hope 2022 will be a good year for all. If you are wondering who the exhausted woman is to the left of baby 1927, it is one of the of the women from...
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Which is your favorite portrait of Louise Brooks?
Over the years, I have been asked the same question different ways. "Which is your favorite portrait of Louise Brooks?" I suppose I have answered that question differently depending on when I was...
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Happy Birthday Pola Negri
Happy Birthday Pola Negri, the Polish-born actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and early sound eras. By most accounts, Pola (born Apolonia Chalupec) came into the world on this day in...
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Celebrating Asta Nielsen, an earlier Lulu
Asta Nielsen was an early European film star in whom Louise Brooks had a special interest. (For more about Asta Nielsen and her remarkable career, check out her Wikipedia page HERE, or better yet,...
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On this day in 1922 in the life history of Louise Brooks
Nineteen twenty-two was a pivotal year in the life of Louise Brooks. It was a whirlwind year. Brooks was a teenager, just 15 at the beginning of the year, and she was following her passion for dance...
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Diary of a Lost Girl screens in Provincetown on Jan 19
The Provincetown Film Art Series in Provincetown, Massachusetts will screen Diary of a Lost Girl, G.W. Pabst’s silent classic starring Louise Brooks, on Wednesday, January 19 at 7 p.m. Series curator...
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German silent film Pandora's Box, starring American Louise Brooks, screened...
On Sunday the 16th, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London, England screened the classic 1929 silent German silent film, Pandora's Box (aka Loulou). The Institut français is the French Agency...
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A silent film collage in an Italian futurist magazine
I have always been drawn to collage, whether in the visual arts or in film or literature. Despite the jumble, it makes sense. Early modernism, especially dada and surrealism made use the technique, as...
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Dorothy Day, the Catholic "Saint" who once reviewed a Louise Brooks' film
Yesterday's New York Times ran a story headlined "Was Dorothy Day Too Left-Wing to Be a Catholic Saint?" The article, subtitled "The Archdiocese of New York has asked the Vatican to consider the social...
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Kansas Silent Film Festival set for February
One month from today, the Kansas Silent Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th annual event when it kicks off the 2022 event in Topeka. More information about the event, including the program of...
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The American Venus, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1926
The American Venus, featuring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1926. The film is a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of a beauty pageant, namely the actual 1925 Miss America contest in...
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Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1929
Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1929. Based on two plays by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind, Die Büchse der Pandora, or Pandora’s Box, tells the story of Lulu, a...
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The Glories of Poland's KINO Magazine, part one
If you are anything like me (and I realize most people aren't), then you may enjoy surfing the internet and browsing old newspapers and magazines, especially international publications. I like doing so...
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The Glories of Poland's KINO Magazine, part two
If you are anything like me (and I realize most people aren't), then you may enjoy surfing the internet and browsing old newspapers and magazines, especially international publications. I like doing so...
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The Glories of Poland's KINO Magazine, part three
If you are anything like me (and I realize most people aren't), then you may enjoy surfing the internet and browsing old newspapers and magazines, especially international publications. I like doing so...
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Dates and films set for first ever Cleveland Silent Film Festival
The dates and line-up of films have been announced for the first ever Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium. The multi-film, multi-day series of events begins February 13 and runs through...
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