Louise Brooks

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01. June 2006, 20:26:11

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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 the real Louise Brooks never had any children. She called herself Barren Brooks but everyone knew her as Lulu.