Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...

Louise Brooks, legend of the silent-movie era, reveals her naturalistic approach to acting and recalls her experiences of working with German-language film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst. The film ...

How does a director best cull a performance from an actor? One Austrian filmmaker, G.W. Pabst, encouraged enmity and distance on the set in the hopes that his players would bring a concomitant ...

Between 1925 and 1938 Louise Brooks appeared in 24 films but ironically she is perhaps least remembered for what she was - a gifted actress. This year marks the centenary of the birth of this ...

Brooks never acted in an Alfred Hitchcock film, but just months after Pandora’s Box was released the British filmmaker broke out of the silent mould and made his first talking motion picture.

UP until about two years ago, I had never heard of Louise Brooks. Yet, throughout most of my High School life I had sported a short blonde bob with a straight fringe clipped just above my eyebrows.

The 1920s was the first decade of modern society as we know it, with the emancipation of women, the advent of rapidly changing technology and a desire to live the good life. It was the era of flappers ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in Hollywood"; "Lulu in Berlin"; "Lulu in Hell"; and "Resurrection".