Louise Brooks

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Film & TV

Acting · Cherryvale, Kansas, USA

Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the…

Known for

• Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess2012
• Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films — Herself (archive footage)2011
• Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture2010
• Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007
• Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl — Self (archive footage)1999
• Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu — Herself (archive footage)1998
• Mysteries and Scandals — Self (archive footage)1998
• The Casting Couch1995
• 1001 Films — (archival)1989
• Louise Brooks — Herself (Archival Footage)1986

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1962-02-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

39

Total plays

92

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

2. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

   · 1983 · cited 13,595x

3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,706x

4. glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling

   · 2017 · cited 11,491x

5. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence

   · 2020 · cited 11,340x

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Quotes

• “I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”
• “I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.”
• “I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.”
• “We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in the barn.”
• “The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.”
• “Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”

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Key facts

Born

Mary Louise Brooks , ( 1906-11-14 ) November 14, 1906, Cherryvale, Kansas , U.S.

Died

August 8, 1985 (1985-08-08) (aged 78), Rochester, New York , U.S.

Resting place

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Rochester, New York)

Other names

Lulu, Brooksie, The Girl in the Black Helmet

Occupations

Actress dancer writer

Years active

1925–1938

Known for

Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

Spouses

A. Edward Sutherland ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1928 ) ​ Deering Davis ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1938 ) ​

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