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Louise Brooks Society

A blog about an actress, a website, silent film, and the Jazz Age; and occasionally the state of Kansas, Denishawn Dance Company, Frank Wedekind, his character Lulu, Weimar Germany, music, art, dance, literature, research, and other stuff sometimes only tangentially related to the heart of the matter

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Louise Brooks Society: Founded in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is an online archive and intl fan club devoted to the actress best known for her role as Lulu in "Pandora's Box." Our motto, "To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world." (Salman Rushdie)

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This blog is authored by THOMAS GLADYSZ , the founding Director of the Louise Brooks Society. It is a continuation of the old blog at LiveJournal. Please send comments or questions to silentfilmbuff {AT} gmail DOT com

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Blog Archive

▼ 2012 (6)
- ▼ January (6)

► 2011 (69)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (1)
  - Louise Brooks in the current issue of New Yorker
- ► August (7)
- ► July (10)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (6)
- ► March (6)
- ► February (10)
- ► January (14)

► 2010 (244)
- ► December (19)
- ► November (23)
- ► October (20)
- ► September (16)
- ► August (17)
- ► July (18)
- ► June (21)
- ► May (19)
- ► April (21)
- ► March (30)
- ► February (21)
- ► January (19)

► 2009 (72)
- ► December (11)
- ► November (18)
- ► October (9)
- ► September (8)
- ► August (11)
- ► July (9)
- ► June (6)

Blogs Worth Reading

*European Film Star Postcards*

Štefica Vidačić / Steffie Vida - Yugoslavian beauty *Štefica Vidačić* (1905) became Miss Europe 1927. This triumph led to a brief career in the German silent cinema under the stage name *S...
9 hours ago
SFGate City Brights

Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco & San Francisco's Dashiell Hammett - The Film Noir Festival currently underway at the Castro Theater in San Francisco concludes Sunday with a tribute to Dashiell Hammett. The author of The Mal...
1 day ago
Pre Code Films

Dancing Lady (1933) - MGM’s 1933 musical *Dancing Lady* can be seen as an attempt by the studio to do something in the style of Warner Brothers’ 1932 hit *42nd Street*. MGM coul...
1 day ago
Silentlocations

Chaplin’s Modern (Los Angeles) Times - As I explain in my visual essay included in the Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), Chaplin filmed scenes for hi...
1 day ago
HOLLYWOOD HEYDAY

MOVIE GO ROUND - By Louella O. Parsons Hollywood, May 8 *Colleen Moore* is opening her gorgeous home in Bel Air. It’s one of the show places in California and she hasn’t ...
2 days ago
Movie Classics

Take Five: Films About Films - Carrying on with my series where I pick five films which have some kind of loose thematic connection – not necessarily the best or even my favourites, but ...
3 days ago
SF Bay Area examiner.com

A Girl in Every Port screens in Berkeley - As part of its 25 film, four month Howard Hawks retrospective, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley will screen A Girl in Every Port. The 1928 Louise Brook...
4 days ago
Starts Thursday!

Happy Birthday David Llewelyn Wark Griffith! - *Coming attraction slide for True Heart Susie (1919)*David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was born in LeGrange, Kentucky on January 22, 1875. In the years that tra...
4 days ago
San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Kevin Brownlow on PBS - Kevin Brownlow was on the PBS Newshour a few days ago speaking about the upcoming San Francisco Silent Film Festival presentation of *Napoleon*(1927). Jeffr...
4 days ago
Movietone News

Britons confused by artistry; compensation offered... - *“Odeon Liverpool One can confirm it has issued a small number of refunds to guests who were unaware that The Artist was a silent film. The cinema is happy...
1 week ago
Glamour Daze

Vintage 1940's Makeup Tutorial - The Right vs Wrong Looks - We present an edited version of our popular vintage 1940s makeup tutorial video, with clear guides for face shape, hairstyle and makeup looks to achieve an...
1 week ago
Strictly Vintage Hollywood

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1 week ago
Silent Volume

La Bohème - I have a love for Lillian Gish’s work so strong it approaches prejudice. She’s my favorite actor, and the promise of seeing one of her performances is en...
1 week ago
"Give me the good old days!"

Glass slides kick off 2012! - As I did in 2011, I'll start off the New Year of 2012 with some glass slides from my collection. I hope this year I will have more time to write for the b...
2 weeks ago
Time Machine to the Twenties

Paulette Goddard on Home - Paulette Goddard World traveler Paulette Goddard, to columnist Earl Wilson, about her Hollywood home: "It's a wonderful place for my paintings and my loot...
1 month ago

Mostly Vintage Music

Absinthe Radio
Big Band Remote
Dawn of Sound
Early Jazz Radio
Radio Dismuke
Radiola!
RadioLulu (LBS station)
Shellac Stack
Sweet & Lovely
Symphonola Radio Hour
Vintage Jazz Variety

Mostly Silent / Mostly Film

American Film Institute
Cinema Treasures
City Brights @SFGate
Europa Film Treasures
George Eastman House
Golden Silents (message board)
Kansas Silent Film Festival
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Library of Congress
Nitrate Film Interest Group
Nitrateville (message board)
Pordenone Silent Film Festival
SF Silent Film Festival
Silent Comedians
Silent Comedy Mafia (message board)
Silent Era
Silent Film Wiki
Silent-movies.com
Silents Are Golden
The Silent Treatment
Turner Classic Movies
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Unsung Divas of the Silent Screen
Welcome to Silent Movies

The Jazz Age, etc....

1920's Music
Art Deco Society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Flapper Fashion
Flappers
Jazz Age Chicago
Jazz Age Culture
Roaring 20's
Roaring 20's (links)
Roaring Twenties
Slang
The 1920s
Wikipedia entry
YouTube clips

LBS in the News

BBC
Deutsche Welle
Guardian (UK)
Henderson Gleaner
KRPS (radio)
LBS Bibliography
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
New York Times
Noe Valley Voice
San Francisco Chronicle
SiouxWIRE
Stolen Moments (podcast)
TimeOut Chicago
Wired

More LBS Links

Facebook | Diary
Flickr
FriendFeed
last.fm
LiveJournal
MySpace | LBS
MySpace | RadioLulu
News of Lulu
paper.li
Spotify
Wikipedia
Zazzle

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