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LOUISE BROOKS (personality) LOUISE BROOKS (personality) 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2w142 LOUISE BROOKS 8x10 still 1920s incredible portrait with two guns by Eugene Robert Richee! Date Sold 12/14/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 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: What a wonderful image of Louise Brooks this is. Not only is it a great close image of her holding two giant antique pistols, but it also has a Paramount stamp on the back, which includes credit for "Gene Robert Richee". It is 100% definitely an original still! The only slight negative about it is that it once had a snipe on the back, and the snipe is gone, so we don't know what that said. We have seen another version of this image reproduced on the Internet, and it looks the same, but it has a still code of "PSP 9611" in the bottom right corner, but we could not find a film that that goes to. So we don't know if this is from a publicity session, or if it is advertising a specific film. We DO know that this is a rare opportunity to acquire one of the best Louise Brooks portrait stills (by a name photographer, with the stamp on the back) that we have ever seen! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. There is a small stain in the center of the bottom blank border. There are tiny creases in three corners and a few faint creases scattered in the still, but they are truthfully only noticeable when the still is tilted to the light. There was once a snipe on the back of the bottom of the still, and there are paper remnants in those areas, but it does not affect the front at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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