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LOUISE BROOKS (personality) LOUISE BROOKS (personality) 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3j0103 LOUISE BROOKS matted 7.25x9.5 still 1920s incredible portrait with her trademark bobbed hair! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Matted Original Vintage Theatrical 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" [18 x 24 cm] Movie Still (entire display measures 11 1/4" x 14 1/4") (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: Note that this still measures 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" [18 x 24 cm], but it was not been trimmed. It was glued to a 11 1/4" x 14 1/4" mat, no doubt prior to framing. Condition: good to very good. After the photo was matted, it was slightly roughly handled and it acquired two faint horizontal creases across the lower part of the image, 1/2" apart. They are truthfully not very distracting at all, and they are primarily noticeable in the blank backing mat (there is also a partial crease in the top right of the backing mat and in the bottom right corner of the backing mat). Learn More about condition grades 
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