Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
by Peter Cowie
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Book Summary Information
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
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- ISBN13: 9780847828661
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Book Reviews of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever
Book Review: The All Time, All American Beauty: Louise Brooks
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to admit up front that I have always been in love with Lulu Brooks. I am 62, but have thought about her every day of my adult life. Ever since seeing Pandora's Box for the first time in my late teens. I have read virtually all of her writings and several biographies of her life and seen all her extant movies (sadly some have not survived).
This book is mostly photos coupled with a brief biography. But, ah, the photos of this woman! She was so famous during her teens and twenties that the studios and fan magazines hired the best photographers in the world to snap her portraits. Her neck is swann-like; her eyes jet black as is her hair, the eyes penetrate and show a lively intelligence, that "helmet" hairstyle perfectly frames a perfectly symetrical face. She attracted men like flies; led a sexually charged life; was an alcoholic by age 18; partied like there was no tomorrow. Yet through it all her beauty remained.
One photo is enough to convince anyone that she was a very special woman. Her self-destructive behaviour brought her career as an actress to a halting end, but nothing can destroy the utmost beauty of her face and body. Hard to believe she was barely 5'2" and washed up by age 30.
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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