Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
by Peter Cowie
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Author: Peter CowieForeword: Jack Garner
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-07
ISBN: 0847828662
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Rizzoli
Book Reviews of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
Book Review: not what I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
I've always been a big fan of Louise Brooks' classic beauty, and I greeted the arrival of this work with anticipation. The book itself is well written, but there is nothing new in it. As I looked through the photos, which are well reproduced, I realised that I had seen virtually all of them before.
If you are a big Louise Brooks fan, you will enjoy this, but you may wish that you had obtained it less expensively.
Summary of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her distinctive "bob" haircut looks as modern as they did when she first appeared in films in 1925. Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas, and by eighteen had established herself as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies, and was receiving film offers from both MGM and Paramount. In 1928, she starred in William Wellman's Beggars of Life. Meanwhile she was mingling with the high and mighty of Hollywood, having a passionate affair with Charlie Chaplin, spending weekends at William Randolph Hearst's castle and captivating such men as William S. Paley, the founder of CBS. Her brief, yet spectacular role in Howard Hawks' A Girl in Every Port impressed G.W. Pabst, the German maestro who was seeking an actress for his upcoming production, Pandora's Box. He rejected Marlene Dietrich in favor of Brooks, who went to Berlin and made not only Pandora's Box but also Diary of a Lost Girl, forever ensuring her status as a screen icon.This exquisitely produced album celebrates Lulu with rare film footage stills, private photos, letters, interviews, and text by renowned film critic Peter Cowie, exploring this influential cult figure and abiding symbol of the Jazz Age.Entertainers Books
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