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LOUISE BROOKS (personality) LOUISE BROOKS (personality) 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2h584 LOUISE BROOKS 8.25x10 still 1937 Columbia portrait by Lippman before she was fired again! Date Sold 12/22/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8 1/4" x 10" [21 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Louise Brooks was born Mary Louise Brooks in 1906, and she was always unconventional. She was the daughter of a Kansas lawyer, but she left at the age of 16 to go to New York and join Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn with their Denishawn dancers. Two years later she had a falling out with Shawn and was fired. She then worked in the George White's Scandals, the Ziegfeld Follies (where she was a semi-nude dancer, and was noticed, and signed to a Hollywood contract by Paramount Pictures, where she had several minor movies as a sexy flapper girl in comedies). She finally got her big break in a starring role in Beggars Of Life, and predictably she left Hollywood to go to Europe. But she had had the title role in The Canary Murder Case in 1929, which had been filmed as a silent, and Paramount asked her to return to dub the movie, and she refused, which effectively blacklisted her in Hollywood. She made two incredible movies with legendary German director G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, and Diary Of A Lost Girl and I highly recommend both. She made Prix de Beaute in France, and in the early 1930s she returned to Hollywood (minus her trademark flapper hairdo) where she could only get minor roles, and she returned to Kansas, and later New York. She lived an alcoholic life in obscurity (supported by former admirers including William S. Paley, founder of CBS). In the 1950s and 1960s she was "rediscovered" by film critics, and she wrote many articles and books about her life, which I also highly recommend. She is likely best remembered for her distinctive hair style! She passed away in 1985 at the age of 78. Important Added Info: As noted above, this still is from 1937, when Louise Brooks returned to Hollywood after her massive falling out with Paramount. She signed with Columbia, and appeared in the Buck Jones movie "Empty Saddles", where she was given billing. The following year, she was scheduled to make "When You're in Love", a movie starring singer Grace Moore, and she appeared in a number of scenes, and this still was created to promote her return (although they left out that she had already made one movie on the snipe on the back), but before the movie was released, she got in a big fight with Columbia head Harry Cohn, and he fired her, and her scenes were deleted from the movie, except for a couple where she can be glimpsed in the background! Condition: good. The still was used in a newspaper or magazine and there are crop marks around Brooks' head, with a few paint enhancements within the image (so it would show up better in the printed article). The still is creased throughout and rippled around the bottom half (because of the newspaper clipping glued to the back) and that causes it to not lay completely flat. This causes "distortion" in our image because it does not lay completely flat in our scanner, but this distortion is solely in our digital image, and NOT in the still itself. Learn More about condition grades 
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