Louise Brooks-Blackbird

[MultiNoKids]

THIS SONG INTRIGIES ME J T NAPLES

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Wonderful tribute to LULU! 

[billthestinker]

thanks for posting, I became extremely interested.

[16reynoso]

Did Louise ever have children?

[1sababoy]

@16reynoso No. She was not able to.

[petithelene]

@16reynoso She had a niece, Roseanne Brooks.

[MowgliX]

Louise Brooks was extraordinary, so talented and intelligent, and almost beautiful beyond dreams. She was also an alcoholic and a valium abuser. She was in some ways the Edie Sedgwick of the 1920s and 30s. I love them both!

[greenmanTN]

LB was very beautiful but a lot of mythology has been built up around her, some of it of her own making. She was intelligent but let a rich abusive lover make her career decisions. She was flighty and an alcoholic. Years later when asked why Hwood turned their back she said, "I liked to drink and screw too much." She left before she became a hooker instead of just a "kept woman" for rich men. A former lover gave her money to live on later and write "Lulu In Hollywood." Her talent was wasted.

[16reynoso]

wish I could pull off that wonderful haircut..Love her movie Pandoras Box!!

[SvendBosanvovski]

Louise Brooks: A Biography, Barry Paris, written in 1989 is a terrific read. Also Louise's own Lulu In Hollywood, written in 1987. You may also track down the great interview she gave just before her death. I have it on VCR. Yes, she was something special, wasn't she?

[bridtm]

what movie is 1:00 from?

[moonkaf]

Diary of a lost girl

[bigwhitto]

Pandora's Box.

[malvip]

@bridtm Pandora's box, almost all this scenes are from that movie

[Titaniacy]

Wat movie is 0:34 from?

[moonkaf]

Pandora's box

[Titaniacy]

@moonkaf Thank you!

[1weirdgurl]

Inspiration to all us non-barbies!

[luvebug21]

Im telling all of you.this song is the best.;)

[newrochellephoenix]

Hey-thats Josephine Baker singing ! If youve chance to find Louises book-Lulu In Hollywood-,do so ! An amazing read .

[frihed]

My girlfriend looks soooo much like Louise Brooks, even the hair is alike! Aw, makes me miss her so much now when she's at festival without me :/

[mujaku]

She was the Brando of her time. Massive stage presence--and very natural. She never saw the camera when she acted. She also read Schopenhauer.

[JudgeJulieLit]

She read Schopenhauer? i.e., The World As Will and Idea? So did Hitler. (Beware those influenced by one or few books or ideas.)

[herrrob14]

Lulu was so natural and magnetic on the screen. Who needs method acting? Brooks just walzed in and stole any scene she was in.

[drvinnievegas]

My friend Barry Paris wrote a wonderful book about her.

[ccfc73]

Aye, it was a wonderful book.

Quite possibly the best biography I've ever read on any person.

[drvinnievegas]

ccfc, thanks for your note. I'll be sure to tell Barry the next time I see him - he'll be delighted to hear. By the way, I watched this entire marvelous documentary, and was surprised to see that he wrote the narrative for it as well. (Produced by Hugh Hefner, Narrated by Shirley McClaine, by the way.)

[luvebug21]

Louise was a strong headed woman and really smart ive seen her interview and thats how i know.Ive also read her biography she never really thought she was pretty and therefore never really gained social acceptance .Its really sad though that she died of a massive heart attack.

[mujaku]

And so I have remained, in cruel pursuit of truth and excellence, an inhumane executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them. — Louise Brooks

[TomCollinsgirl]

She lived her last twenty years in my city Rochester and though she died before I was born, I am just fascinated with her

[anniemoonmaid]

suddenly inspired to learn more about the movies of the 1920s and 30s. this woman knocks socks off latter day movie stars! annie

[bandibreath]

Has there ever been a biopic about Louise Brooks? Why did she give up on pictures...? She was still a young woman when the talkies came along.

[moonkaf]

Yes she was still young. She did some work in Germany and refused to come back to the usa to dub the canary murder case. They dubbed it without her then snubbed her. She did a western film several years later with John Wayne. Sadly it was her last.

[1sababoy]

@bandibreath There are a couple of things... "Lulu In Berlin", an interview film that is on YT in 4 parts. "Louise Brooks - Looking for Lulu", a documentary which you can rent or instant watch through Netflix. :-)

[sirvinylot]

@bandibreath Yes! "LOOKING FOR LULU" (1998), a 60 minute documentary by Hugh Munro Neeley and "LULU IN BERLIN" (1984), a 48 minute interview with Louise Brooks by verite documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll. Both are available on the "CRITERION EDITION of "PANDORA'S BOX". Get her autobiographical book about her movie career and Hollywood! It is great!

[seventoll]

What a lovely, lovely woman she was!

They sure don't make them like that anymore!

[newrochellephoenix]

ByeByeBlackbird seems a perfect song for Louise. 4 ever Lulu!

[kilkidi]

is she singing?

[rhyfeddu]

kilkidi - No. The "more info" suggests it was Josephine Baker singing.

[rayito2005]

She ws so beautiful , talented., amazing . I love Lulu's movies greetings from southamerica

[engreena]

Louise looks stunning, she reminds me a little of Juliette Binoche. I used to call my mum Ms Brooks as she had this hair style and hair colour. I wish some of her films would be shown on tv.

[mujaku]

Lulu was not only stunningly beautiful and divine, she was extremely intelligent. Her eyes--the most enchanting part of her--contain both beauty and wisdom. She has no equal.

[futurephotosc]

I loved Lulu

[doliwsef]

A wounderful montage. Luise Brooks was a great artist, but hated by US movie industry. Thanks for this tribune!

[bandibreath]

Why did they dislike her...was she too independent?

[doliwsef]

She was refusing an offer of MGM for doing a movie with Papst in Germany. So she worked together with the great competitor. German movie industrie had to die, because it was too great. So after the second world war USA killed this industry. Back in USA she was used as a symbol not to work together with competitors. She is vice versa to Marlene Dietrich.

[calindrill]

Brooksie had a well earned reputation of being somewhat unreliable. She saw herself foremost as a dancer, not as an actress. After a debate about her contract, money and the refusal to reshot scenes, she was thrown out at Paramount and her name was put on the infamous black-list. Her last chance, in Hollywood, was to play the part of Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy (1931) with James Cagney. But she snobbishly refused, and sadly this fatal decision cost her her film-career. The german movies ...

[calindrill]

were no problem, because no one in the United States really saw them. Talkies were the rage, not expressionist silent movies from Germany. Brooksie was simply a strong-head, and if your name wasn't Greta Garbo, you had serious problems with a difficult attitude in Hollywood. Most Studio-Bosses saw their stars as property and not as artists. Louise liked the money, but she didn't saw herself as a serious actress. After her german experience the american comedies were too shallow for her taste.

[voidforpurpose]

The secret history of the movies book "Flicker" is built on this song.

This is a perfect video to watch after reading it.

Thanks for a great montage!

[peterbe777]

Belle époque beaucoup d',exprésion et de souvenirs

[rickymolotov]

Charlie Chaplin had her. The bastard... ( just kidding... I'm jealous, that's all...)

[sibaffs]

great tribute to a gorgeous and talented yet saddly under rated actress.. if you like louise brooks try the lulus mr brightside video by the killers and pandoras box by omd

[candyxlie]

she is absolutely amazing.

great actress with amazing style and very pretty.

[richragsdale]

heck yeah!

[tigerlily86]

i love her hair cut

[megansspark]

Great!

[justinbluehall]

Two jazz babies of 1920's Europe,Louise Brooks and Josephine Baker!

[creamofcardstv]

I love the early movies. I've given you five stars, please check out my movie memorabilia vids (includes Louise Brooks)

when you have time.

[johnopone]

Some beauty !

The world will never again see the likes

of this Lady. Talulah,Lauren, Marilyn and Gene

have all been hung out to dry.

Lovely collage.

[82Cvette]

i heard she was smarter than miss so carolina

[Thug8855]

What can you say about a legend. Those eyes would make me melt....

Thanks so much.

[L0K3]

You are clever

[deketelaere]

I like this video,great Tribute to Louise Brooks!!

Thanks.

[BertsBreeze]

Oh man I love this clip.

[deketelaere]

Beautiful!

Good effect and music.

[kspm01]

So lovely

[theonewhitstyle]

great!

five stars!!!