I first met Louise back home in Rochester NY in the late 70's. She was an interesting personality to engage with. A private but strong lady, she was compelling to converse with, especially about her earlier years in the film industry. I had missed her Service when she had passed, as that I was out of town on business; however, I bought red roses to place at here grave in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery off of Lake Ave. there: red roses for all of the romance that she embodied. She had done a magnificent set of works interviewing and chronological reporting of famous directors such as Buster Keaton.
I consider you to be very lucky to have met her. That is something that I very much wish I had the opportunity to do. She was special. I hope that she knew that.
The problem with your statement is that she ISN'T iconic, because she wasn't famous during her time in films, despite the fact that she was an up-and-coming actress who was becoming popular with movie audiences. Only film nerds have turned her into an "icon" or a "goddess."
@@dariowiter3078, and if a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, has it made a sound? Of course, she was iconic. History is full of people whose particular gift or gifts weren't recognized at the time, or, as in Brooks' case, were recognized, then forgotten about. But there is such a thing as discovery and rediscovery. Louise Brooks is one of the most striking people in the history of movies. I wonder if her uncooperativeness doesn't provide a clue to her failure: maybe she had borderline personality disorder, which I think you can make a case Frances Farmer also had.
I liked the 10 min. clip of Louise Brooks and John Wayne in the western airplane flick. She gave a straight ahead, serious, better than most, performance. In that I really watched her. In the Silent films, she seemed like a novice and a child, who really belonged in a Little Rascals short. Men see her one way, perhaps. A sensitive woman might see the vulnerable, friendless soul who didn't know how to save herself, growing increasingly downtrodden. I respect and honor the gentleman from Eastman in Rochester who evidently read her as I saw her, and gave her a self-respecting job and place to be, reviewing and writing about the archived footage in the Eastman library.
I wonder why I love this era ... it doesn't particularly represent me at all but this time in history has always held a fascination for me .... The clothes , the culture , the architecture , the cars , the optimism and naiveté clashing with reality ... the whole schpiel
I'm so glad she went to Berlin. Those films she made in Germany and with Pabst are SO amazing and don't seem dated at all. I watch them over and over. If you have not seen them, do so now!
Yes, I have seen them and I also have read Pandora's Box and The Spirit Of The Earth by Frank Wedekind, the theatrical pieces. I think her in that time with Pabst in Pandora's Box create a unique and magic alchemy in the History of the cinema.
@sereno353 :: What a bad decision to return to Hollywood after Germany. I'm glad she turned down _The Bride._ She probably would have been mesmerizing, but Lanchester was magnificent !
I agree- there was nothing waiting for her in Hollywood as we now know. But, she didn't speak German or French and was a bit much for GW Pabst to handle.
I would disagree with your characterization of her appeal. She was one of the great stars, but my vote for "most beautiful" would go to the tragic Frances Farmer. I think they may both have had borderline personality disorder.
@@bobtaylor170 I agree that saying "most beautiful...of all time" is a big stretch. But if the vote was narrowed down to "most beautiful actress of the 1920s", then Brooks would get my vote.
There is no doubt that it was possible to a strong assertive woman in Hollywood as Bette Davis proved. Louise Brooks for whatever reason was undoubtedly not able to find any degree of contentment in anything she did. That was her real problem and perhaps that was rooted in her childhood
I think she is very unique , intelligent amazing actress ! I loved her in Pandora's Box endearing facial expressions I just love her ! Extremely Cool ! ❤️
Too many actors underestimate the role of the director in their success. Louise Brooks is remembered because Pabst saw something in her that can be melded into a role of a lifetime--Pandora's Box. Too many actors underestimate the role of their own folly in their failure...
Louise must have been very strong. How many other people could have kept going for so long in the circumstances Louise was in for so many years after she left films? How many would have committed suicide? She was a voracious, intelligent reader. Maybe in books Louise found both escape and encouragement.
There was nothing like her! I love Barry Paris' book about her! I first saw Louise Brooks through the Richard Leacock interview - and I fell in love with the old woman in the bathrobe.
The Paris biography is one of the greatest biographies I think I've read. So much more was revealed than was ever known before about Brooks that Paris discovered from pouring over her letters to so many friends and family members (who thankfully had kept them...Louise herself discarded most of their replies).
7-18-2018 I visited and Photographed her Headstone today In Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Today . I have 3 conflicting dates and a Published Photo of A stone that does not match what I saw Today . Rochester , N.Y . You are not forgotten !
Brooksie wanted to return to America so she could be with multi-millionaire/sports owner George Marshall whom she had a long time affair. Marshall wanted to marry Louise, but she wanted her independence and enjoyed her romance with Marshall the way it was going at the time.
kaewinf8 That's nonsense! If it had remained Nazi Germany, do you really think that artistic films like those made before 1933 would still have been possible there . Of course not !
@Voracious Reader Valid points. It's to her credit then, that she persevered like she did. Finding some solace in her writing, reading and a few friends. I think she was magnificent.
@Voracious Reader Not necessarily true, I know that happened to me. Of course I am not a star just a wife and mother ,sister and friend . Life isn't easy for anyone who has gone through that . But some of us do move on .
Her resemblance to Coleen Moore is stunning however she was not as comedic as Moore and might have been taller in physical stature. Two beautiful silent stars!
She was evicted for wearing what wasn't considered appropriate at that time. It was a pink dress in the lobby. The other was exercise bloomers on the roof exercising.
Nice overview of L.B.'s life and career, and good interviews with writers and others who have helped keep her spirit alive. I could have done without the re-enactment segments, but mercifully they aren't nearly as excessive as some docs made today (History Channel is currently really lazy with depending on these to fill time in their bio "doc" series...the Washington and Lincoln recent docs on HC use these incessantly; hard to believe that Doris Kearns Goodwin gave her approval to rely so much on this annoying approach). I fail to see how Brooks' life qualifies as anything having mysterious or scandalous associated with it, though. If anything, her life was more tragic than anything else because by self-sabotaging her own career at the end of the silent era, film-lovers were deprived of ever seeing her star in pictures made during the 1930s that may have catapulted her to stardom on a level with Garbo, Davis, Stanwyck, etc. Louise has bluntly admitted the mistakes she made that doomed her motion-picuture career, but never possessed any regrets regarding them. Her views expressed about this always struck me as an attitude of "what's done, is done," and she stood fast with her opinion that the choices she made were the right ones for her at that time. It's just fortunate that she never sank too far before the cinema world got another chance to rediscover her and fall in love with her again while she was still around to appreciate the acclaim.
Yes, god forbid that any woman could enjoy having sex as much as a man. (That's sarcasm, which I'm pointing out as you seem to be a very narrow-minded individual.)
I think she was a fool. Louise had talent and a rare beauty. Had she learned to harness that anger, she would have been one of the greats! That would have provided her with the means to have more control over her career, such as directing and producing, choreographing dance movies, etc . . . and thereby giving her a stronger voice in the industry. Louis was her own worst enemy!
No children. In some of her conversations and writings she expressed how motherhood was not something she desired, either. A lot of her feelings about this no doubt came from the conflicted feelings she had about her own mother.
I wished so much for the actors to vote for Louise Brooks, becsuse her only child was my Norwegian mother-in-law Signe Ingeborg Louise (there it is, Louise Brooks!) and I am married to her daughter Liv Marie Alexander, the SAG-AFTRA actress Liv Alexander hated by the Jews of Hollywood because my wife has a Norwegian accent -- actresses like Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, the talentless Gabrielle Sallinger (who was because of the cruelty of people like Burt Ward whom I cast in his only significant feature film STAR QUEST (based on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea) who prevented Liv from getting an Oscar. Gene Hackman prevented Liv from getting an Oscar. The King of Norway Harald V took away my Oacar for as the Director of STAR QUEST because he considers himself as the authority on Ibsen (Ibsen dramas must never be used as adaotations), even Liv Ullman hated Liv Alexander because she, Liv Ullman had done the original play Lady From The Sea in Norwegian, and the list of hateful people in Hollywood is endless, Sir Steven Spielberg whom I had knighted by Queen Elizabeth II because my father Nimrud Alexander born Jewish in 1884 and the first CIA man who saved the English monarchy and the House of Windsor from didappearing during WW II -- Vic Alexander
I first met Louise back home in Rochester NY in the late 70's. She was an interesting personality to engage with. A private but strong lady, she was compelling to converse with, especially about her earlier years in the film industry. I had missed her Service when she had passed, as that I was out of town on business; however, I bought red roses to place at here grave in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery off of Lake Ave. there: red roses for all of the romance that she embodied.
She had done a magnificent set of works interviewing and chronological reporting of famous directors such as Buster Keaton.
Did Louise ever mentioned working with WCFIELDS?
Answer them, Horny. Or are you too Yella?
I consider you to be very lucky to have met her. That is something that I very much wish I had the opportunity to do. She was special. I hope that she knew that.
My go to hair cut/style each summer. I keep her picture in my
Phone to show the stylists 😊
What a gorgeous woman! Had a tragic later life. Nice that she's been rediscovered and appreciated. Too bad she's not around to see it
She was such a beautiful lady. Those eyes speak volumes.
Such a ICONIC BEAUTY! I am mesmerized by Lulu. Thank You for posting.
The problem with your statement is that she ISN'T iconic, because she wasn't famous during her time in films, despite the fact that she was an up-and-coming actress who was becoming popular with movie audiences. Only film nerds have turned her into an "icon" or a "goddess."
@@dariowiter3078, and if a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, has it made a sound? Of course, she was iconic. History is full of people whose particular gift or gifts weren't recognized at the time, or, as in Brooks' case, were recognized, then forgotten about. But there is such a thing as discovery and rediscovery. Louise Brooks is one of the most striking people in the history of movies. I wonder if her uncooperativeness doesn't provide a clue to her failure: maybe she had borderline personality disorder, which I think you can make a case Frances Farmer also had.
She was amazing, one of a kind. I just saw Diary of a Lost Girl, mesmerizing!
I liked the 10 min. clip of Louise Brooks and John Wayne in the western airplane flick. She gave a straight ahead, serious, better than most, performance. In that I really watched her. In the Silent films, she seemed like a novice and a child, who really belonged in a Little Rascals short. Men see her one way, perhaps. A sensitive woman might see the vulnerable, friendless soul who didn't know how to save herself, growing increasingly downtrodden. I respect and honor the gentleman from Eastman in Rochester who evidently read her as I saw her, and gave her a self-respecting job and place to be, reviewing and writing about the archived footage in the Eastman library.
I wonder why I love this era ... it doesn't particularly represent me at all but this time in history has always held a fascination for me .... The clothes , the culture , the architecture , the cars , the optimism and naiveté clashing with reality ... the whole schpiel
Even in old age Louise was beautiful.
She was way ahead of Hollywood...
I'm so glad she went to Berlin. Those films she made in Germany and with Pabst are SO amazing and don't seem dated at all. I watch them over and over. If you have not seen them, do so now!
Yes, I have seen them and I also have read Pandora's Box and The Spirit Of The Earth by Frank Wedekind, the theatrical pieces. I think her in that time with Pabst in Pandora's Box create a unique and magic alchemy in the History of the cinema.
I loved Diary of Lost Girl. Was so much story in one movie
@sereno353 :: What a bad decision to return to Hollywood after Germany. I'm glad she turned down _The Bride._ She probably would have been mesmerizing, but Lanchester was magnificent !
R.I.P. Thanks for posting in .She should have stayed in Europe. The most beautiful and talented actress of all time by far..........................
I agree- there was nothing waiting for her in Hollywood as we now know. But, she didn't speak German or French and was a bit much for GW Pabst to handle.
I would disagree with your characterization of her appeal. She was one of the great stars, but my vote for "most beautiful" would go to the tragic Frances Farmer. I think they may both have had borderline personality disorder.
@@bobtaylor170 I agree that saying "most beautiful...of all time" is a big stretch. But if the vote was narrowed down to "most beautiful actress of the 1920s", then Brooks would get my vote.
@@nosmoking2480, there we agree! She was certainly the hottest, most striking creature, wasn't she?
There is no doubt that it was possible to a strong assertive woman in Hollywood as Bette Davis proved. Louise Brooks for whatever reason was undoubtedly not able to find any degree of contentment in anything she did. That was her real problem and perhaps that was rooted in her childhood
Bette Davis was not at the mercy of alcoholism. Brooks, alas, was. A dreadful disease.
I think she is very unique , intelligent amazing actress ! I loved her in Pandora's Box endearing facial expressions I just love her ! Extremely Cool ! ❤️
Her beauty, her independence and talent was light years before her time. ❤
a timeless beauty
Too many actors underestimate the role of the director in their success. Louise Brooks is remembered because Pabst saw something in her that can be melded into a role of a lifetime--Pandora's Box. Too many actors underestimate the role of their own folly in their failure...
Spoken like a director
She was her own woman before her time with great confidence & strength. R.I.P. Ms. Brooks. Miss you Hef.
A wee bit of trivia: Louise came from the tiny hamlet of Cherryvale, KS = As did Vivian Vance.
She was so beautiful♡
Louise must have been very strong. How many other people could have kept going for so long in the circumstances Louise was in for so many years after she left films? How many would have committed suicide? She was a voracious, intelligent reader. Maybe in books Louise found both escape and encouragement.
She and Vivian Vance came from Cherryvale, KS originally.
She was no Vivian
@@terry4137
Thankfully!
Next to Clara Bow Louise was the most stunning silent star I've had a picture of her in my home for years true beauty
There was nothing like her! I love Barry Paris' book about her! I first saw Louise Brooks through the Richard Leacock interview - and I fell in love with the old woman in the bathrobe.
I totally agree about Louise and about Paris's book about her. I already liked her but the biography brought her to a whole new level.
The Paris biography is one of the greatest biographies I think I've read. So much more was revealed than was ever known before about Brooks that Paris discovered from pouring over her letters to so many friends and family members (who thankfully had kept them...Louise herself discarded most of their replies).
What a brilliant woman.
7-18-2018 I visited and Photographed her Headstone today In Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Today . I have 3 conflicting dates and a Published Photo of A stone that does not match what I saw Today . Rochester , N.Y . You are not forgotten !
Very good, thanks for the upload.... :)
She was gorgeous!!!
Neither mystery or scandal, simply tragic.
I've been stunned the moment I first saw her in "Pandorra`s Box"
She never should've left Germany. Pabst was the ideal director for her.
kaewonf8 yes she really does look like Laura dern, the lady in the dressing gown in what looks like the bathroom.
Or she could have stayed in the US and worked with Howard Hawks who was ready to work with her again, she would have been amazing in his talkies...
Brooksie wanted to return to America so she could be with multi-millionaire/sports owner George Marshall whom she had a long time affair. Marshall wanted to marry Louise, but she wanted her independence and enjoyed her romance with Marshall the way it was going at the time.
@@elizabethevans1275 Laura Dern? Please.Laura Dern can't hold a candle to Lulu's Beauty!
kaewinf8
That's nonsense! If it had remained Nazi Germany, do you really think that artistic films like those made before 1933 would still have been possible there . Of course not !
Pretty lady, even into the 1970s.
The original "IT" girl, alongside Clara Bow. Amazingly strong 💪 beautiful ❤️ woman 😻🌟🎭👍🇬🇧
Sounds like she was a beautiful, smart and strong lady.
I agree. If she had found a strong man who loved and respected her instead of just wanting her for her beauty her whole life could have been different
She is a woman all her own. I would have loved to met her
Maravillosa, Brooksie....
She was amazing and her own worst enemy.
Loved this ty
To come back from being sexually abused at 9 is some feat. Little wonder she was a bit cranky sometimes. RIP Louise.
@Voracious Reader Valid points. It's to her credit then, that she persevered like she did. Finding some solace in her writing, reading and a few friends. I think she was magnificent.
@Voracious Reader Not necessarily true, I know that happened to me. Of course I am not a star just a wife and mother ,sister and friend . Life isn't easy for anyone who has gone through that . But some of us do move on .
Her resemblance to Coleen Moore is stunning however she was not as comedic as Moore and might have been taller in physical stature. Two beautiful silent stars!
Louise would have been an incredible serious actress. hard-boiled and tough.
That's "Colleen," idiot, not "Colleen." 😠😠😠😠😠
No contest Louise was a true stunner
She was gorgeous
She was evicted for wearing what wasn't considered appropriate at that time. It was a pink dress in the lobby. The other was exercise bloomers on the roof exercising.
Happy Birthday Louise ... You Lit Up The Screen and You Live Forever ...
Louise Brooks:
November 14 1906 - August 8 1985
November 14 2021 (2309 hrs)
Louise brooks🥰🕵️♥️
Ok.... so why no mention of her connection with Greta Garbo. I hate how history is distorted.
What are you talking about?
This skipped a lot. Like how Barbara Bennett took her in and they went to England. How she was the first one to dance the Charleston there.
Min 1:11 is the inspiration for Alexander McQueen's Image for Björk's "Homogenic" album cover! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogenic
Nice overview of L.B.'s life and career, and good interviews with writers and others who have helped keep her spirit alive. I could have done without the re-enactment segments, but mercifully they aren't nearly as excessive as some docs made today (History Channel is currently really lazy with depending on these to fill time in their bio "doc" series...the Washington and Lincoln recent docs on HC use these incessantly; hard to believe that Doris Kearns Goodwin gave her approval to rely so much on this annoying approach).
I fail to see how Brooks' life qualifies as anything having mysterious or scandalous associated with it, though. If anything, her life was more tragic than anything else because by self-sabotaging her own career at the end of the silent era, film-lovers were deprived of ever seeing her star in pictures made during the 1930s that may have catapulted her to stardom on a level with Garbo, Davis, Stanwyck, etc. Louise has bluntly admitted the mistakes she made that doomed her motion-picuture career, but never possessed any regrets regarding them. Her views expressed about this always struck me as an attitude of "what's done, is done," and she stood fast with her opinion that the choices she made were the right ones for her at that time. It's just fortunate that she never sank too far before the cinema world got another chance to rediscover her and fall in love with her again while she was still around to appreciate the acclaim.
That's not Flo Ziegfeld at 2:34
That's correct!
Every girl wants the Louise brooks!
Sorry, but screwing every guy who comes along is not a sign of intelligence.
Same yardstick, millions of unintelligent men throughout history.
@@irenejohnston6802 But they don't have fans making videos about them. Sad!
Yes, god forbid that any woman could enjoy having sex as much as a man. (That's sarcasm, which I'm pointing out as you seem to be a very narrow-minded individual.)
A man who has alot women is admired.
A woman who does the same thing (alot of men) is a slut
I think she was a fool. Louise had talent and a rare beauty. Had she learned to harness that anger, she would have been one of the greats! That would have provided her with the means to have more control over her career, such as directing and producing, choreographing dance movies, etc . . . and thereby giving her a stronger voice in the industry. Louis was her own worst enemy!
BBC Arena produced a far superior documentary than this one.
@GMoorefan115 Exactly. And what's the deal with that guy, Benza? It seems he'd be more suited to doing solitious pieces on mob hit men.
All these condescending talking heads mouthing on about her, they are all so smug. With terrible hair. Lulu is a legend.
I saw that too
And me three. They are all incredibly comfortable talking about this woman’s experience.
The founder of CBS looked modern like 1960s looks wise
Louise was from the future
"AT 15 NOW A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN.... ".... You slipped up shilly reader
Rest in peace Louise, amen 👍🌠🌈☀️
INLASSABLEMENT PASSIONNANT !
Really? Rochester NY?
Good grief, does anyone know anything abt EDITING??
I'll I have to say is Good For Her
When the one man was recounting the story of how a molester lured her to his house, he smiled as if he thought it was funny. Not cool.
Did she have kids??
No...she sometimes referred herself as “Barren Brooks”
I don’t think she had kids
No children. In some of her conversations and writings she expressed how motherhood was not something she desired, either. A lot of her feelings about this no doubt came from the conflicted feelings she had about her own mother.
She acts like a man (enjoying sex) and gets evicted from her hotel. Makes me angry... The double standards.
Gra Piken
They dont make em like that anymore-)
....Forgot I was on UA-cam, I was waiting on Janis Joplin biography lol
You looked better in a dinner jacket, Hef.
Louise' parents weren't very parental like!
I despise that the narrator referred to Louise as a 15 year old beautiful young woman.
Excuse me. She was a 15 year old child
She ended up a miserable old lady angry at the world in Rochester, New York.
You would be miserable too if you lived here.....😁
Upstate has bad winters So I get it
Way to reduce a symphony of a life to just one note.
I wished so much for the actors to vote for Louise Brooks, becsuse her only child was my Norwegian mother-in-law Signe Ingeborg Louise (there it is, Louise Brooks!) and I am married to her daughter Liv Marie Alexander, the SAG-AFTRA actress Liv Alexander hated by the Jews of Hollywood because my wife has a Norwegian accent -- actresses like Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, the talentless Gabrielle Sallinger (who was because of the cruelty of people like Burt Ward whom I cast in his only significant feature film STAR QUEST (based on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea) who prevented Liv from getting an Oscar. Gene Hackman prevented Liv from getting an Oscar. The King of Norway Harald V took away my Oacar for as the Director of STAR QUEST because he considers himself as the authority on Ibsen (Ibsen dramas must never be used as adaotations), even Liv Ullman hated Liv Alexander because she, Liv Ullman had done the original play Lady From The Sea in Norwegian, and the list of hateful people in Hollywood is endless, Sir Steven Spielberg whom I had knighted by Queen Elizabeth II because my father Nimrud Alexander born Jewish in 1884 and the first CIA man who saved the English monarchy and the House of Windsor from didappearing during WW II -- Vic Alexander
Stay off the drugs Vic ! 🤪 Cheers from Norway
Gossip.....worthless story
sick person
Just curious. Why do you say she was sick? I don't know much about her.