Lulu in Berlin (part 4 of 4)

[jahaniman]

Enthralling.

[dietrichmarlene]

I must say that she looks amazingly well for her 78 without the special makeup and all....wearing just a casual housecoat and not even bothering herself to go to the hairdressers ;) and it's striking how well she looks without all that - I wonder if she ever had a plastic surgery - I do not think so....

[firstperson760]

Rlorene, Thank you sooooo much for this very special glimps into Lulu's life.

[MowgliX]

Louise Brooks was absolutely wonderful. Richard Leacock also knew and worked with (and dated, I believe) another very talented goddess, Edie Sedgwick.

[Handiman544]

I love the line: "I don't meet any brilliant people anymore...." How sad and what a testimony to our dumbed-down culture.

[AnnihilatingAngel]

What a fantastically gorgeous, charismatic lady she was. She also had a sweet voice that seemed to burble with joyful memory.

[mikehhome]

I do agree with cynthiacher. When the nude pics of her were taken she was in awesome shape but she spent a lot of time on the piss in Germany and it showed in Diary of a Lost Girl. She slimmed in her later US films.

[DoctorLoveJuice]

remarkable ...truly an icon.

[partyhat3]

She sounds like a right pain in the ass when she was young, but she must have been a fascinating person. Too bright and too ahead of her own time, maybe

[koln1996]

Certainly a deeply troubled, psychologically scarred woman!!!

[iiiiiccccc]

I adored this. Thank you.

[bqfoster]

So Louise Brooks can sing too! Will wonders never cease.

[cynthiacher]

She couldn't sing. Any singing you see her doing in movies is dubbed with someone else's voice.

[bonkersd0g]

@cynthiacher HI, HEARD SOME DIRT ON THE LADY BUT NEVER THAT.(YET) HMMMM. SEND US A PORTFOLIO. INTERESTING.

[cynthiacher]

@bonkersd0g I recommend you read "Louise Brooks" by Barry Paris. It's the definitive biography of Brooks; very well researched and well-written. Paris is obviously a fan of Brooks, but he remains relatively objective even though he tends to temper any criticism of Brooks with some excuse. It's one of the better celebrity biographies, not a sleazefest or hatchet job at all. But there IS a lot of "dirt"; Brook's life was frequently sordid and appalling.

[bonkersd0g]

@cynthiacher Thanks, will look it up. Regards. Dave.

[wilburbonzo]

she's timeless

[paulbelgium]

Wonderful wonderful wonderful!! This is fine lady!! I love Miss Brooks!!

[pressgangers]

well i never thought id see the day of a Louise brooks interview, How did i miss this being on Youtube for nearly 2 years. Would be wonderful to find a interview with Betty Page

[JudgeJulieLit]

Pressgangers, there is a Web interview with the elder Betty Page. But as at that age she forbade being photographed full on frontally (to preserve her past image), one just hears her older voice, and from the side sees her older arms.

[QAPete]

Thanks for posting this quality rare interview with the inimitable Louise Brooks.

[bjnevin]

What's the name of the film in which she is shown singing at the beginning and end of this (wonderful, might I add...) interview?

[dcourier]

Prix de beauté

[frankmorris5]

I am in love with the memory of her. She's just magnetic.

[welshman131049]

A wonderful chance to see and HEAR the charming, beautiful Louise. So modest, so intelligent, so outspoken..once seen -never forgotten. Thanks for posting ...

[ketimaniac]

This woman is STUNNING! Love her...

[Kulfrans73]

Thank you for the interview. It was fascinating. Must buy her autobiography.

[adriandell]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL INTERVIEW!!!

[MowgliX]

Simply MAHVELous DAHling! No, but really, Louise Brooks in the 1920s is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

[LNSCenter]

I agree.  I'm wondering about something. What color eyes did she have?

[cynthiacher]

@LNSCenter They were a dark brown. I heard some people say they were so dark they looked almost black. She was also only five feet two inches tall and in her youth she was at her slimmest about 103 or 104 pounds. Even so, it's evident in a lot of her pictures (she dressed in a lot of skimpy costumes) that she tended to be plump in the hips and thighs.

[CleoTheSim]

@cynthiacher You think Louise Brooks was plump? In fact, it was all muscle. She was a professional dancer. (I think she looked like a FEMALE...not a 12-year-old, anorexic boy, like the women in movies these days.)

[cynthiacher]

@CleoTheSim Her weight fluctuated somewhat. In some of her early pictures it's evident that she was rather heavy in the hips and thighs. Later on she put on a lot of weight due to her consumption of alcohol. But in her old age she was very thin and frail.

[assasinationnation]

hepburn is nothing, monroe is nothing compared to dear louise

[Leeseeange]

Louise Brooks and Ava Gardner. Louise actually saw Ava as one of her cinematic heroes when she received a television from Roddy McDowell in the 60's. Why those two women aren't bigger icons than Monroe and Hepburn is beyond me.

[JSB1882]

I saw this documentary years ago and that's when I fell in love with Louise Brooks. No one compares to her!

[adrianferri]

Thank you very much! It's a marvelous thing, the internet. And Louise Brooks, of course.

[camilelcoyne]

Thank you so much for posting this! It is absolutely wonderful!!

[Leeseeange]

hahahaha at 2:33

[Thug8855]

BRAVO!!!

Loved every minute of this fascinating interview with such a beautiful ladie and a Hollywood legend.

Once again, Thanks so much!

[ygarn]

Thanks for uploading these 4 parts of Lulu In Berlin - it was so interesting to see Louise in later life, she even held some beauty in her 70's. I particularly enjoyed her account of the rose slashing incident with Townsend Martin, something that I previously had only read about.

[spaceagebachelor]

Thanks for these - Happy New Year!