"Brooks is brilliantly perceptive and articulate on everything from the art of film directing to the comedy of W. It is a tour de force, as history and as a searching study of human nature." Publishers Weekly Lulu in Rochester: Louise Brooks and the cinema screen as a tabula rasa Die Busche der Pandora/Pandoras Box, dir. This is no ordinary collection of gossipy memoirs. "The writing is assured, graceful, and magnetic the life the dancer-actress-author describes makes most fiction trivial by comparison. New to this edition is the revelatory "Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs" by Brooks and "The Girl in the Black Helmet" by Kenneth Tynan, which brought about the revival of interest in her work and was the best discussion of Brooks's film work to appear in her lifetime. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, William Paley, G. Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. The collected writings of this icon of the silent era, in a new, more complete edition.
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