Louise Brooks late 1930s
I watched the documentary "Looking for Lulu", and grabbed these 2 pics of Miss Brooks. I saw the same pic at the Louise Brooks society site at www.pandorasbox.com and it said this was taken in 1939, a year after she made her last movie (a b-western). I think she looks fantastic, better than she did in the silent era. Somewhat Katharine Hepburn-ish, maybe.
The documentary is depressing, although she was a great movie icon, and her intelligence, sharp wits and writing skills were awesome, she seems to have led a hard life after the '20's. I felt really, really sorry for her. The documentary is also rather annoying a lot of the time - various talking heads trying to psycho-analyse the poor woman. I wanted to hear more from the people interviewed who actually knew her.
I would trade all of the proto-"beautiful loser" mystique that has come to surround her for more great films like "Beggars of Life". I wish she'd been a huge movie star in the '30's, not a bit-part player! (also I would trade all of the mystique for a complete copy of the lost film "The City Gone Wild" (1927), which sounds pretty great! A mob movie, made in the 1920s, and with Miss Brooks as a gangster's moll!)
Louise Brooks late 1930s
I watched the documentary "Looking for Lulu", and grabbed these 2 pics of Miss Brooks. I saw the same pic at the Louise Brooks society site at www.pandorasbox.com and it said this was taken in 1939, a year after she made her last movie (a b-western). I think she looks fantastic, better than she did in the silent era. Somewhat Katharine Hepburn-ish, maybe.
The documentary is depressing, although she was a great movie icon, and her intelligence, sharp wits and writing skills were awesome, she seems to have led a hard life after the '20's. I felt really, really sorry for her. The documentary is also rather annoying a lot of the time - various talking heads trying to psycho-analyse the poor woman. I wanted to hear more from the people interviewed who actually knew her.
I would trade all of the proto-"beautiful loser" mystique that has come to surround her for more great films like "Beggars of Life". I wish she'd been a huge movie star in the '30's, not a bit-part player! (also I would trade all of the mystique for a complete copy of the lost film "The City Gone Wild" (1927), which sounds pretty great! A mob movie, made in the 1920s, and with Miss Brooks as a gangster's moll!)