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Louise Brooks lived from 1906 to 1985. She was a silent movie star during the 1920s who participated in several successful Hollywood productions. She was aquainted with most idols and celebrities of the
Jazz Age including
F.Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, Greta Garbo and William Randolph Hearst. Her bob hairstyle started a sensational trend in the
flapper generation. She got herself into a lifelong drinking habit.
In 1928 she turned her back on Hollywood and went to Europe to star in
Pandora's Box by German expressionist director G.W.Pabst. When she returned, Hollywood directors dismissed her for her outspokenness about the Hollywood scene that she wrote about. She had to work as a sales girl in NYC.
Brooks inspired many works of art, among them the scifi novel
The Invention of Morel (1940), the Comicbook Series
Valentina (1965-1995) and the character
Nurse Erin Bloome from the scifi computer game System Shock 2 (1999). The "midwife" character in the game was also based on her appearance since Erin Bloome was the first to get changed into a midwife.
Unlike her role in SS2 Louise Brooks never had real children. She called herself
Barren Brooks but everyone knew her as Lulu.
You can listen to contemporary and related music at the online radio station
Radio Lulu broadcast by the
Louise Brooks Society.
To read Louise in her own witty writings get her book
Lulu in Hollywood.
You can download the videos at the end of the post. Flash video files (FLV) can be played with
Media Player Classic or
VLC Player.
