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Louise Brooks Denver tattoo
A friend of the Louise Brooks Society snapped this pic on their cellphone. It is of a Denver waitress sporting a Louise Brooks tattoo. Pretty neat.This is not the only tattoo of the silent film star....
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On the road with Laura Moriarty & The Chaperone
Bestselling author Laura Moriarty is on the road touring in support of her celebrated novel, The Chaperone (Riverhead). It is now out in softcover. As is evident from the cover, the book features...
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Another Valentina exhibit now in Italy
There is another big Valentina exhibit in Italy. "Guido Crepax: Portrait of an Artist" opened June 20 at the Palazzo Reale, Piazza del Duomo, 12 - Milan. It runs through September 15. After only a few...
View ArticleImages of Louise Brooks - Sonchai Körner
Images of Louise Brooks - Sonchai Körner (2011) from Sven Mundt on Vimeo.Sven Mundt is a Berlin-based stage director and video artist. His latest play, Images of Louise Brooks, brings together three...
View ArticleWilliam S. Burroughs and Louise Brooks
William S. Burroughs and Louise Brooks. The experimental novelist and the silent film star. He authored Naked Lunch and Junky and other works of "Beat" fiction. She played Lulu in the classic German...
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"Louise" sung by Maurice Chevalier
"Louise" was a show-stopping number from the 1929 film, The Innocents of Paris, Paramount's first musical. Here, it is sung by Maurice Chevalier, with the Leonard Joy Orchestra. Though now associated...
View ArticleNouvelle Vague - Our lips are sealed
Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name means "new wave" in French. Their name refers/alludes to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s...
View ArticleNitrate Dreams by Colette Saint Yves
Nitrate Dreams from Colette Saint Yves on Vimeo.Colette Saint Yves (born Hortense Lagrange in 1987) is a French photographer, video artist, and collage artist. Saint Yves is a descendent of the...
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Louise Brooks film screens in Los Angeles on August 7
The Silent Treatment and the Cinefamily Theater will screen the classic 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, on August 7 in Los Angeles, California. More information here. Showtime is 7:30 -...
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Booksigning for The Louise Brooks edition of The Diary of a Lost Girl
Louise Brooks in Prix de BeauteThomas Gladysz, editor of the Louise Brooks edition of The Diary of a Lost Girl, will be signing copies of his book on July 18 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. The...
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Summer is here - Happy 4th of July
Looking for a great read? Take The Chaperone with you on your summer getaway. The Louise Brooks Society recommends it!"The Chaperone is the enthralling story of two women . . . and how their unlikely...
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Hilton Als' new book, White Girls, features Louise Brooks
White Girls (McSweeney's) is one of two new books coming from renown critic Hilton Als. It and The Group (Farrar Straus & Giroux) are both due in November, right around Louise Brooks' birthday on...
View ArticleBrooksie "The Girl in Tutu" by Fabienne Feketelaere
Video tribute to silent film star Louise Brooks. Clip video with coloured pics made by Fabienne Deketelaere. Pics by Eugène R. Richee. Music by Duke Ellington, "Blues in Orbit".Brooksie " The Girl in...
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Audio version of Frank Wedekind's Lulu Play, Pandora's Box
New on LibriVox and the Internet Archive is an audio recording of Frank Wedekind's famous play, Pandora's Box. This LibriVox recording is based on the English-language translation by Samuel Atkins...
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Check out the new & improved Louise Brooks Society blog!
I've been hard at work on the Louise Brooks Society blog, cleaning things up and adding little refinements here and there. . . . A couple of newest refinements are the addition of the "ShareThis"...
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Press reviews of Prix de Beauté from 1930
On Thursday, July 18th the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen the rarely shown silent version of the 1930 Louise Brooks' film, Prix de Beauté. I believe this special events marks the film's...
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Musician Stephen Horne interviewed about Louise Brooks film, Prix de Beauté
On Thursday, July 18th the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen the rarely shown silent version of the 1930 Louise Brooks' film, Prix de Beauté. Made as the European cinema was converting to...
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Don't miss Prix de Beauté
On Thursday, July 18th the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will screen the rarely shown silent version of the 1930 Louise Brooks' film, Prix de Beauté. Made as the European cinema was converting to...
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