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The Loves of Lulu - the First American Lulu (not Louise Brooks) part 2
A follow-up to yesterday's post about Margot Kelly, the first American actress to play Lulu. Kelly played Wedekind's famed character in The Loves of Lulu in New York in May, 1925. Despite its...
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The Loves of Lulu - the First American Lulu (not Louise Brooks) part 3
This post is a brief follow-up to the two previous posts about Margot Kelly, the first American actress to play Lulu. Kelly played Wedekind's famed character in The Loves of Lulu in New York in May,...
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The Unlikely Louise Brooks, number 1 in an occasional series
This post is the first in an occasional series focusing on unusual finds, unusual material, and unusual connections all related to Louise Brooks - even if only tangentially. I run across these sorts of...
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Remembering Louise Brooks, who passed away on August 8, 1985
Remembering Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), dancer, actress, writer, and inspiration to many. She is a 20th century icon. She is gone, but not forgotten. HERE is a link to her "Find...
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Nitrate and Gin, a poem by Shawn D. Standfast
Longtime Louise Brooks fan Shawn D. Standfast sent me a poem "about Louise Brooks" titled "Nitrate and Gin." It comes from his 2019 collection Dark Passages: Moments of Transition, published by Sirens...
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A little bit about Louise Brooks and Salman Rushdie
I first met the great writer Salman Rushdie years ago, when he was still under heavy security. It was an informal book signing, and he agreed to a snapshot with me, my brother, and sister-in-law....
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Need help translating Yiddish Louise Brooks film advertisement
I wonder if any readers of this blog can help translate a couple of lines of Yiddish text. Pictured below is a 1925 newspaper advertisement for The Street of Forgotten Men, the first film in which...
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Neil Gaiman and Louise Brooks, and Kathy Acker too
With Netflix's new production of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman receiving so much publicity of late, I thought I would write a post recounting just some of the many and various connections between Neil...
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Update on The Street of Forgotten Men: From Story to Screen and Beyond
I have been hard at work on my new book about Louise Brooks' first film, The Street of Forgotten Man: From Story to Screen and Beyond. So far, I have 259 pages completed, which includes some 56,000...
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Overland Stage Raiders to be shown at the Cherryvale Historical Museum
Louise Brooks last film, Overland Stage Raiders (1938), will be shown on September 3 at the Cherryvale Historical Museum, 215 E. Fourth St., in Cherryvale, Kansas. The a 55-minute western, which stars...
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A bit about Queen Elizabeth II and Louise Brooks
One might not think so, but there is a connection, albeit a small one, between the silent film star Louise Brooks and the late Queen Elizabeth II of England.Brooks lived and worked in London, England...
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Louise Brooks, the still silent muse
Louise Brooks is having a moment.... Just recently, the New Yorker magazine reprinted Kenneth Tynan's 1979 profile of the actress, "Louise Brooks Tells All," in its August 29, 2022 issue. That recent...
View ArticleIn Memorium: Jean-Luc Godard, French cinema legend
The French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard -- a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), the film making movement that revolutionized cinema in the late 1950s and 60s -- has died aged 91. Tributes...
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival Day of Silents Announced
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has announced its annual A Day of Silents event for Saturday, December 3 at San Francisco's Castro Theatre. True to its live-cinema tradition, the SFSFF is...
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Timelock rerelease Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks was originally released in 1992 as the debut album from Timelock, a prog-rock / neoprogger band from The Netherlands. The cover of the original CD release contained a black-and-white...
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Two brief interviews regarding the Timelock rerelease of Louise Brooks
The Dutch rock band Timelock has re-released its 1992 debut album, titled Louise Brooks, as a remastered, expanded double CD. I wrote about it in my previous post, which can be found HERE. This new...
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The Dutch edition of Loulou in Hollywood
A brief follow-up to the previous post featuring interviews with Timelock singer Ruud Stoker and Louise Brooks cover artist Corné Akkers. Mentioned in that piece was Louise Brooks' 1982 book, Lulu in...
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Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
As most fans of Louise Brooks are aware, Brooks was well acquainted with the silent film star Marion Davies. Brooks spent time at the famed Hearst Castle, and also visited Davies at her beachfront...
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Louise Brooks asks "Just how short is a short skirt?"
There has been a bit of renewed interest on Facebook in this 1927 newspaper ad, in which Louise Brooks asks "How short is a short skirt?" To which Louise Brooks, movie darling, answers, "Let it be...
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Even more Louise Brooks and even more Louise Brooks Society
For a number of years now, the Louise Brooks Society has been a member of the CMBA (Classic Movie Blog Association). And for a number of years, the CMBA has run an annual blogathon in which members...
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