Showing posts with label Show Off. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Show Off. Show all posts

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Little Seen Louise Brooks Film to Screen in Chicago, Illinois

The little seen Louise Brooks film, The Show Off (1926), will be screened in Chicago, Illinois one month from today, on January 10, 2023. This screening, presented by the Silent Film Society of Chicago, will include a live theatre organ score performed by Jay Warren. More information about this event can be found below. A BIG thanx to longtime LBS member Tim Moore for alerting everyone to this event.

The Show-Off  screened in Chicago, Illinois in various theaters in July and August of 1926. Overall, the film was well received. (It remains one of my favorite Louise Brooks comedies.) Here are snippets from a few vintage reviews.

Tinee, Mae. “Ford Sterling Almost a Perfect Bumptious, Bombastic Show Off.” Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1926.
— ” . . . splendidly cast and acted.”

Reel, Rob. “You’ll Remember and Like Ford Sterling as Show Off.” Chicago Evening American, July 27, 1926.
— ” . . . is well done, and a lot of fun. You ought to like it.”

anonymous. “A Hit on the Stage; as Good on the Screen.” Chicago Evening Post, July 30, 1926.
— “Louise Brooks and George Kelly also handle their parts most effectively.”


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

And the Oscar for best hair goes to Louise Brooks

According to the New York Times, and according to Ted Gibson - who has been campaigning for a "Best Hair" award, none other than Louise Brooks should have won the first Oscar for "Best Hair." In "Hairstyles Worthy of an Oscar Nod,"  Catherine Saint Louis stated
“The Show Off” (1926), starring Louise Brooks (it actually predates the first Oscars in 1929). “Women then weren’t wearing haircuts — they wore sets, waved hair,” he said, but her straight haircut with bangs to her cheekbones “changed the course of how women wear their hair, it introduced women to a new way of thinking.”
Louise Brooks is also pictured in the article. Check it out here.
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