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Auction History Result 5h285 LOT OF 14 LOUISE BROOKS REPRO 8X10 PHOTOS '80s candid images, magazine cover art & more! Date Sold 3/19/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 14 1980s REPRODUCTION 8x10 photos of Louise Brooks. Note that these were used by author Barry Paris in 1989 when he wrote his book about this cult actress called "Louise Brooks: A Biography"! Of course, Louise Brooks was born in 1906, and she was always unconventional. She was the daughter of a Kansas lawyer, but she left at age 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, and had several minor movie roles 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! Condition: very good. The REPRODUCTIONS are in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
  
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