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 ...

Based on Laura Moriarty’s best-selling 2012 novel, “The Chaperone” fictionalizes an episode in the life of silent movie star Louise Brooks. Yet the intermittently effective drama that unfolds is as ...

Lawrence novelist Laura Moriarty's book, 'The Chaperone' has been made into a film. When Kansas-born actress and dancer Louise Brooks wanted to travel to New York City in 1922 at the age of 15, she ...

When you watch the silent-screen star Louise Brooks in one of the films that made her a legend, most spectacularly the glittering femme-fatale drama “Pandora’s Box” (1929), it’s shocking to see how ...

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 ...

On the right, Louise Brooks, the darkest sylph of silent sensuality. It isn't merely her beauty that makes modern film buffs still pine, nor is it the bob — "that radical, chirpy cut, which carried ...

Haley Lu Richardson has the sensual vibrance to play silent screen legend Louise Brooks, but this tale of her first New York visit is a staid tug-of-war. When you watch the silent-screen star Louise ...

Reviews might be “mixed,” but don’t let that deter you. The Chaperone is a fascinating, exquisitely made film about the early life of sultry silent-screen star Louise Brooks, who traveled from Wichita ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeryl Brunner covers theater, entertainment and lifestyle stories. Louise Brooks was a teenager living with her family in Wichita, ...

Louise Brooks is known as the silent-movie actress who popularized the bob haircut and the Charleston. She has been called one of the 20th century’s most beautiful women. And Brooks – a woman with ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The lovely woman pictured on the cover of "The Chaperone" isn't the Louise Brooks most people recognize. Brooks is more familiar ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. LOUISE BROOKS: FOR THE HELL OF IT is a ghost play, a cosmic encounter of this ...