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Louise Brooks
Acting
14 Nov 1906
† 08 Aug 1985
Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Biography
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract wit...
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Mary Louise Brooks
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Louise Brooks's Movies
75%
Pandora's Box
30 Jan 1929
73%
Diary of a Lost Girl
27 Sept 1929
71%
Beggars of Life
22 Sept 1928
57%
The Canary Murder Case
16 Feb 1929
60%
A Girl in Every Port
26 Feb 1928
64%
Miss Europe
01 Aug 1930
52%
Overland Stage Raiders
20 Sept 1938
50%
It's the Old Army Game
10 Jul 1926
74%
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
05 May 1998
48%
God's Gift to Women
13 Apr 1931
69%
When You're in Love
12 Feb 1937
56%
It Pays to Advertise
18 Feb 1931
60%
1001 Films
01 Jan 1989
72%
The Show Off
16 Aug 1926
43%
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
23 May 2007
76%
Lulu in Berlin
27 May 1984
72%
The Street of Forgotten Men
24 Jul 1925
73%
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
19 Mar 1926
58%
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
02 May 1931
83%
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
14 Jun 1999
